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...politics. It is not the first in my order of priorities. Politics is the servant of science and the humble interpreter of philosophy. It does not have the creative virtue of art. Estranged from the knowledge of nature and the workaday life of man, politics is like a cut flower, quickly withered. I have worked, dreamed, loafed, learned to love things and beings. Nothing speaks to me better of spirit and matter than the light of summer at 6 o 'clock in the evening as seen through a stand of oaks...
...reasons are many, but they grow from one stem: Italy offered German artists both sensuous fulfillment and an integral, traditional discipline-as it had, centuries earlier, to their national hero Albrecht Dürer. The luxury lay in nature, the stringency in culture. Goethe's "land where lemons flower" provided its Northern enthusiasts with an inexhaustible supply of prototypes and themes, marmoreal fragments of the Roman past and painted lessons from the Renaissance...
They stood out like glistening white beacons against the green countryside, their silver warheads gleaming lethally in the sunshine. Beside the main highway from Beirut to Damascus, a dozen of them were poised on a gentle, flower-strewn ridge that overlooks the verdant Bekaa Valley in eastern Lebanon. Farther to the north, outside the airbase at Riyaq where Israeli Phantoms shot down two Syrian helicopters two weeks ago, another dozen were perched on newly dug mounds of earth. These were Syria's Soviet-made SA-6 missiles, one of the most potent antiaircraft weapons in the Syrian armory...
...warm, while he waited for assistance. Five schoolboys out on an endurance test were rescued after two nights on storm-swept Dartmoor; a medium had told police where to look. Horse racing, cricket and soccer games were canceled, and the bloom totally vanished from the Harrogate spring flower show...
...bounds of what is seemly; the consort's luster must not dim the King. Eventually, as Queen, Lady Diana will wear a crown with the 109-carat Kohinoor diamond as its centerpiece. This royal geegaw has been out of circulation for years. Watching Lady Diana, whether accepting a flower from a schoolboy or negotiating a receiving line, one wonders for a moment if such a crown might not be . . . well, yes, superfluous. Good enough, really, just to see her smile...