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Only Canadians echo American senti-| ments. "This U. is our U.," chants Western Ontario, and McGill apologetically proclaims, "Great our affection, though feeble our lays...
...finding an inch-long fragment of pottery on the dull grey desert, and it is the art of seeing a whole camp site in the broken shard. It is the ability to hold that relic in the hand and hear in the mind's ear an echo of some forgotten language, almost understood...
...three killers were very likely insane. None had a criminal past. But the national passions aroused by their crimes seem, in retrospect, a chilling echo of the assassinations themselves. Guiteau went raving to the scaffold, where a crowd that had paid as much as $300 each for the pleasure of seeing him hang heard him cry, Glory, glory, glory," as the door was sprung from beneath his feet. Czolgosz was electrocuted only 46 days after McKinley died, and a carboy of sulphuric acid was poured into his coffin afterward, by way of post-mortem punishment. Sergeant Boston Corbett, the soldier...
...their nine violins with the discipline of smoothly moving piston rods. Be neath the ping of a pizzicato the big-bellied strings-three violas, three cellos and a bass-growl like well-tuned sports cars. The horns sing out on the curves as the harpsichord taps its deli cate echo in the background...
...China is far from giving up its nuclear ambitions. Some time ago, Khrushchev warned that any country trying to build a bomb without adequate resources might lose its pants. Nevertheless, said Chen, sounding like an echo of Charles de Gaulle, "at the risk of losing our pants, we are determined to go ahead and build our own atomic bombs. Otherwise we will end up as a second-or third-class nation...