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...archfoe, Winston Churchill -the most hypnotic orator and contumacious politician of 20th century Britain. One of seven surviving sons of a Monmouthshire miner who died of lung disease, "Nye" Bevan, even in his plummy days as a Buckinghamshire squire and playboy of the West End world, never forgot or forgave the hardscrabble existence eked out by the working folk of his native valleys. His principal monument is Britain's National Health Service, still the model of womb-to-tomb medical care...
...front of a bunch of snivelling fools when we get the classic epic from the monster's point of view. And in The Sunlight Dialogues, self-parody pops up in thoughts such as "She realized, briefly, that she was merely a character in an endless, meaningless novel, then forgot." Veracity has been one of Gardner's lesser concerns; he has made it clear he has been out to make his own little verbal world...
...they wanted to be taken over by the U.S. and imagined that I had been granted Kissingeresque powers to rearrange national sovereignties on the map of Asia." Aikman posed with the villagers for a high school-type photo and exited gracefully. In Uganda, Nairobi Bureau Chief Lee Griggs momentarily forgot his manners when President Idi ("Big Daddy") Amin Dada admired his necktie. "I should have remembered," confesses Griggs, "that when a Moslem admires something of yours, you give it to him." Good-naturedly, Big Daddy, a former heavyweight boxing champ of Uganda, punched Griggs in the chest. Griggs, incidentally...
...instrument, which was reflected in the cadenza. Instead of a flashy passage of trills and fast runs with which most soloists show their stuff, Brandon played a more melodic composition which emphasized the rich tonal qualities of the bassoon. He also showed a fine ability to improvise when he forgot a few measures. Mozart's tailored composition and Brandon's full and moving interpretation combined to produce a fine concerto for an unlikely instrument...
...kamikaze pilot. Fortunately, World War II ended before he flew a suicide mission, but while waiting, he picked up a stone, fondled its shape and texture, and never forgot the experience. Since then, he has seldom been out of stone's reach...