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...city yet fully recovered from the blasts of Sir Thomas Beecham, who in 1941 had proclaimed Seattle "an esthetic dustbin" (he has similarly complimented many other U.S. cities...
...dust from the dustbin, notes one symphony board member, has long since settled into Puget Sound. With such results, what's a little pingpong between friends...
...confederation would have its temptations. By accepting it, the West would be promised abatement of Communist pressure on Berlin-at least until the Russians decided that such a promise belongs in the category of what Izvestia recently called "paper guarantees which have value perhaps only in history's dustbin." Confederation plays to the sympathies of those who, with vivid memories of two world wars, fear a rearmed and militarized Germany. It is a fear that disturbs not only Poles, Czechs, Frenchmen and Nye Bevan, but also distresses those who, like Konrad Adenauer, want safeguards on German militarism...
Even by Sketch's dustbin standards, this was not much of a story. Shiv, an Indian maharajah's son, is a bush-league playboy-not, say, in Porfirio Rubirosa's class. Jane was an insatiable romanticist who could, if need be, wriggle through a love affair in five minutes. What's more, she had a husband and two-year-old daughter in the West Indies, where she had left them nearly two years...
What is India? By the judgment of the Indians themselves-from Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru down to an unemployed factory manager in Gwalior-it is an empty tomb, a looted dustbin, the shadow under the lamp; it is four parts filth and one part hypocrisy, a cow-dung country inhabited by people with a cow-dung mentality. Cries one Indian youth: "There's no depth of superstition to which Indians won't sink. We worship cows and cobras. We have eight million 'holy men,' most of them naked and all of them mad. Everything...