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When the bar closes, Rosetta invites the three men to her apartment for sandwiches and a nightcap. She and Emble are attracted to each other, and all four, in their alcoholic glow, feel the exciting promise of this union. But when Rosetta returns after seeing Quant and Malin to the door, she finds Emble passed out cold on her bed. The promise of love was an illusion. The poem ends, as it began, in the loneliness and frustration of all four characters, for Auden is preaching a revulsion from all temporal goods, including human love; the only thing to hold...
...your table] that night was at 10 p.m. I didn't get a strike until 9:45. From that time until 10:30 I caught a nice mess of crappies, weighing around two pounds each, and the sun fish were extra large." News like that makes Knight glow all over...
...some of the people who had fled Texas City began to drift back. Some ignored police warnings that the waterfront was "pluperfect hell" and went down to help. Hundreds of grimy, gas-masked men, stupid with fatigue, still labored there-probing for severed legs, torsos, heads, in the red glow of the unquenchable fire. Sometimes squads of rescuers staggered for cover when a change of wind whipped the .blistering heat around. Among them was Father William Roach, of St. Mary's Catholic Church. Father Roach died with his rescue squad when, at 1:11 a.m., the High Flyer mushroomed...
Dynamos & Dollars. When Miguel Aléman talks industrialization, his brown eyes glow. He wants to lift the submerged 16 of Mexico's 22 millions and draw them into the new life that has flowed out of the Revolution. These millions are now unable to raise a cash crop to sell in the cities, and unable to buy the city's products. More than 1,115,100 of them walk barefoot, more than 4,500,000 have only huaraches. There is only one radio set for every 70, only one bed for every four...
...Harvard indifference. While current sports-writers rhapsodize over Gannons and Mariaschins, the College's "old grad" elements gather in their Clubs or at class reunions to reminisce about the great Crimson crews and the numerous, almost unbroken string of victories over Yale. It's a monopoly, they say, and glow the cocky glow of a giant in Yale-Harvard competition...