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...week's end that Ali had partially solved their problem. He will, according to word from Pakistan, bring to the U.S. only Begum No. 2, Canadian-born Lebanese Aliya Saadi, his "prosperity" bride. But the capital's party-givers were still slightly upset: they had grown fond of popular Begum No. 1, Hamida, when Aliya was a lowly, belowstairs secretary...
...poems celebrate birthdays of old friends, weddings, meetings of Harvard alumni. There are several fond tributes to Howe's beloved Boston, and here and there, the old man has dropped in roguish jingles...
...right for so-called national measures, while it would receive votes from the left for social measures. In other words, over the prostrate body of the nation would rule two demagogues, one a flaming nationalist, the other a pseudo-Socialist." His scorn was directed at the Concentration's fond ambition to pass foreign policy measures with help from the Monarchists (who are pro-Western) and economic reforms with votes from Pietro Nenni's Communist-line Socialists. It was a dangerous game, founded on the Concentration's conviction that it can use fellow-traveler Nenni without being used...
...some great man's throne. She is at her most gallant and most futile in trying, while having her hair trimmed, to talk her college-age daughter out of an unsuitable attachment: "Time is running out so move in a little faster. Tell her I am so very fond of Bowie. Linda responds, Yes, he certainly can charm the birds off the trees. I go on and say, Of course you have so much to offer, dear. Linda asks, How do you mean? I then lose my head, jump the gun, and cry, All I want is your happiness...
...operatic golden age (1897-1907) under Composer-Conductor Gustav Mahler, a perfectionist who, so legend has it, personally walked Brünnhilde's horse around the Ringstrasse before the performance of Götterdämmerung in order to prevent stage accidents. Vienna was never especially fond of innovations, but some became famous. When Soprano Maria Jeritza was rehearsing Tosca with a Scarpia who knew not his own strength, she landed flat on her face on the floor just before her big aria, Vissi d'arte. She sang it from there, and seldom afterwards did it any other...