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...crises and satisfactions of his life can best be described in his favorite cliches of sport and Broadway. Ed "plays the game hard"; he "hates to be pushed around"; he thinks "the public is always right." He spent most of his youth 25 miles from Broadway, but the gleam of its bright lights was always in his eyes...
George Exintaris, the Greek representative, retorted: "Any government can prevent a mob from running wild." Tiney answered: "The Communists had a hand in stirring up the mobs." Greece's Exintaris, with a triumphant gleam in his eyes, protested: "But I thought you had eradicated Communism in Turkey...
After years of high hope, fine talk and hard work, about all that is left of the great postwar dream of European unity is a diminishing gleam in the eyes of thousands of "good Europeans" and one big tangible fact: the Schuman Coal-Steel Community, which pools the coal and steel of France, Germany, Italy and the Benelux nations. Last week the Council of Ministers of the Community met in the Sicilian city of Messina...
...vast, eye-filling CinemaScope backdrop of Hong Kong harbor. Incredible islands rise perpendicular from the blue sea, and fleets of fishing junks, like floating windmills, drift by on the tide. Ashore, the narrow streets are jammed with the swarming, anonymous humanity of Asia, while high up on green terraces gleam the flowered palaces of the rich...
...that Wolfe's attitude toward those rare and brief moments is closely related to Wordsworth's "intimations of immortality," and like Wordsworth, Wolfe found that as he grew older those moments came upon him less and less. Several times he closely echoes Wordsworth's "Whither is fled the visionary gleam?/Where is it now, the glory and the dream...