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...prize from the National Book League, Britain's poet laureate (official salary: $272 per annum) allowed in a tense shout: "I am still writing, and I hope to write better some day. At 86, some of the cobwebs have been knocked away, and the scene becomes grander. Much more majestic are those fables that await retelling...
Isaiah (Jack) Jackson, Philip Heckscher, and Sandy Leon--three roommates from Eliot House who are, respectively, conductor, director, and assistant producer of Cosi--quickly greeted their visitors. After saying yes, they certainly could show why Mozart was so much grander than chamber opera or Gilbert and Sullivan (both of which are presented regularly and successfully at Harvard, they excused themselves temporarily and hurried off to move chairs...
Dashing as diplomats and espionage agents, grand as poets, even grander as kings, the British are notorious duds when it comes to fashion. Though endowed with better-than-average raw material, Englishwomen intent on clothes that set them off had to cross at least a channel, sometimes a sea, to find them...
...merger. With that decision, the way was opened for the creation of a 7,450-mile freight superline whose routes would reach west to Missouri and north into Canada, save the two lines $27 million in costs each year. Railroaders saw in the ICC decision a far grander design: the reconstruction of the entire Eastern rail system into a strong regional network...
Grandson Dan Fraad started in the business at the end of a mop handle, is called "Junior" by his wife and friends. His chores are not all that different from Grandfather's, though on a much grander scale. The company that started out by refilling railroad kerosene lamps now pumps three million gallons of fuel per day into jet planes at major commercial airports...