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...city. For weeks the biggest story in the Cleveland Plain Dealer concerned one of its own em ployees. The paper kept its readers posted almost daily on the progress of Copy Editor Robert Manry, 48, who set out last June 1 from Falmouth, Mass., for Falmouth, England, aboard the frail 131-ft. sloop Tinkerbelle. Manry dutifully reported news of his crossing to the Plain Dealer via passing ships; once he sent a bundle of letters to his wife, and the Plain Dealer published those too. As all Cleveland concentrated on the adventures of its seagoing copy editor, the city...
From Memory. Though a silent, pale, frail-looking man, Rostropovich is the iron man of the concert circuit. Periodically, like a compulsive mountain climber, he seems compelled to tackle great chunks of the cello repertory simply because it is there. In eleven concerts in Moscow last winter, he accomplished the unparalleled feat of playing 41 different works, virtually the entire repertory for cello and orchestra, all from memory...
...Near Defeat. The chorus of critics-public and private-was saying that Sir Alec was his party's own worst liability. In Commons, he had proved no match for the acid jousts with Prime Minister Harold Wilson. On TV, he came across to the nation as a frail, pale shadow of the graceful, witty private Sir Alec. The latest National Opinion Poll had Labor back in front of the Tories 46% to 41%. On a man-to-man popularity basis, polls invariably showed Home trailing Wilson. One gave Wilson the nod in virtually every category, from "tough" (Wilson...
...glory of her flamed in him. With magnificent nonchalance, he grasped the frail net that shrouded her shoulders, ripped it to shreds, and cocked an appraising eye at the pale, smooth skin. Rhythm beat in their ears. The surf surged and ebbed...
...Thou, not l-lt. Frail and paunchy, with a majestic beard and "penetrating, incorruptible eyes," Buber was once described by Swiss Novelist Hermann Hesse, an eclectic Christian, as "one of the few wise men on earth." Buber's wisdom was reflected in many fields - his poetic translation of the Hebrew Bible into German, his retelling of the long-forgotten legends of the joyous, mystical Hasidim, his vision of a Jewish education for the modern world, his defense of kibbutz socialism and the spiritual meaning of Zionism...