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Seeing the big nations behaving so mannerly, some of the small nations decided that the Burma question might be susceptible to discussion. A gentler substitute motion, formally sponsored by Mexico, was introduced. It deplored the "foreign forces" in Burma, called on them either to disarm and get out, or be interned, and recommended that "the negotiations now in progress through the good offices of certain members [meaning the U.S.] should be pursued." Nowhere did the compromise Mexican resolution-mention "aggression" or identify the offending forces...
...make my flowers grow any faster," she said, "but I want them to be the prettiest and the healthiest."^ In line with her determination to be a "grownup married woman and not a 14-year-old javelin thrower," she concentrated on golf hoping that some of its gentler graces would rub off on her. Some...
Painter Bosch's versions of Hell are waist-deep in griffins, scarabs, metallic demons with forked tails, sinners whose truncated bodies are pierced by huge swords or impaled on giant musical instruments. Although he had his gentler moments on canvas, his earthly scenes abound in abandoned lovers, tortured sick men and money-loving monks, with a watching demon or two always close at hand. Through them runs a train of almost surrealistic symbolism, a cross patch of a witches' Sabbath and a psychoanalyst's nightmare, that has fascinated and baffled five centuries of art critics...
...sentiment of the occasion, Douglas MacArthur, in fine, old-fashioned prose, deliberately stressed his heaviest political liability: his age. "For me," he said, in what proved to be a thoroughly nonpolitical speech, "the shadows are deepening. I left Little Rock long, long years ago when life was simpler and gentler. The world has turned over many times since then, and those years of old have vanished, tone and tint; they have gone glimmering through the dreams of things that were...
...Cliff $85,000 a year for his own daily invasion of his family's privacy. Of this, $20,000 goes into production costs, and the rest disappears in expenses, annuities for the children, and taxes. "I can't save anything," Cliff complains. And. thinking of the gentler tax rates of the '30s, he adds wistfully: "If only we'd had those kids 15 years...