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...strange Arab lamps appeared, being brought in by neighbors. I was followed out to the carriage by this strange procession of torches to light the way. Many of these people had the faces of patriarchs, silhouetted by the strange light in the darkness. I shall never forget the fervent handclasp of one old fellow who was black as the ace of spades. He couldn't speak a word of French, but he understood everything. . . . There are a number of other families who will need help of this kind...
...Jefferson's ardent democracy (TIME, Feb. 1) to shimmer in the present as well as shine from the past. Covering the ten fateful years between 1790 and 1800-when the naked, squalling infant republic had no pacifier but a weary, aging George Washington-The Patriots shows his fervent Secretary of State and his fiery Secretary of the Treasury leaping at each other's throats in their completely opposed efforts to save the country...
Fury & Flavor. Giraud's memorandum deals with France. His explanation has the fury of a puritan, the gift of shrewd observation, the introspection of a fervent nationalist, the conservatism of the French officers' class...
...which recorded many unfamiliar details of George Bernard Shaw's childhood and lovelife. Others were Esther Forbes's conscientious, overlong Paul Revere and the World He Lived In ($3.75); Hugh 1'Anson Fausset's erratic but illuminating Walt Whitman ($3); Poetess Muriel Rukeyser's fervent celebration of the famously forgotten great man of science Willard Gibbs ($3.50) ; Franz Werfel's Verdi: the Man in His Letters...
Sometime late Saturday night, when things were going pretty well at the Eliot House formal, some Elephant big-wig made fervent promises to a similarly important 'Cliffette. The promises got across, and caught up with the culprit finally yesterday, in the form of a big, bold truck...