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...matter of fact, this technique is precisely the same as that used in testing optical surfaces. Foucault, the famous physicist, who invented the method, was undoubtedly the first person to see a "breeze," nearly 100 years ago. Thousands of telescope makers, both amateur and professional, have watched warm air currents rising from the hand...
...tower and one could look right through holes from one side of the building to the other. Only one church could be seen standing: the Wizytek on Cracow Street. There was not a trace of St. Alexander Church in the Square of the Three Crosses, or of the famous Holy Cross Church...
When artists get concerned with politics, they act like other citizens. Last week in Modern Music magazine five famous European composers, now in the U.S., tried to answer a purely political question: what should be done to Europe's collaborationist composers...
...Lupe Velez she led a strange and unfettered existence-even for Hollywood. She was very young when she became famous. Her teen-age whims and appetites, her shallow fits of rage and delight remained unchanged. She loaded herself with jewelry. She delighted in entering nightclubs with a spurious dignity. She also delighted in tantrums during which she spat oaths like an angry cat. She loved to go to prizefights, where she screamed advice to the boxers...
MacLeish: "You know the famous anecdote about Browning-one day one of Browning's friends called on him and asked him what he meant by a certain passage. Browning read it over and said, 'When I wrote that, God and I knew what it meant; but now God alone knows...