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...closeness of the press extends beyond the limits of news reporting and develops into a camaraderie which expresses itself in small ways. After the debate in the far-off town of Durham. Don Irwin of the L.A. Times went around the press room making sure everyone had a ride back to Manchester. And Tom Ottenad of the St. Louis Post Dispatch offered to help three homeless Crimson reporters find lodgings for the evening
...thought of old films rather than old books. Lush Dmitri Tiomkin sound tracks seemed to leap from the obituaries to strike Remarque's patented theme: grand passion, grand despair in wartime. In one's stereophonic memory chambers, violins throbbed counterpoint to far-off guns and the crumpled-velvet whispers of thwarted lovers. It is as if Remarque's art were defined by one of those overstylized love scenes in Arch of Triumph between Charles Boyer and Ingrid Bergman-two old pros struggling to come through with tears and accents after all those years in Hollywood...
...sake the candidate could still schedule a couple of speeches a week in distant cities, give those hours to the archaic evenings of smoke and oratory, pump the hands of people at the fences and endorse the local candidates. There would remain the need to make the far-off cadres of campaign workers feel as if they were a part of the operation...
...discovery of these far-off molecules, many of which are essential to life, indicates that the same chemical concatenations that led to life on earth may be under way throughout the universe. Says Carl Sagan: "The building blocks of life are lying around everywhere...
...tribesmen know few tools other than their steel-bladed spears, live on little more than a mixture of curdled blood and milk, and have no wealth other than their thirsty herds. But much to the Karamoigongs' distress, all that really seems to disturb the reform-minded regime in far-off Kampala is the fact that they have no clothes...