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...also the diva of divas, Callas, enthroned in a corner box. Immediately the entire house turned in claque-like obeisance to Callas; galvanized by her magnetic presence, they applauded and cheered as she blew kisses and tossed them the roses that lined the tier. Then she went backstage to greet her compatriot with "Brava! Brava! Brava!" But now she had created a supercharged atmosphere that was as much of a challenge to Suliotis as the opera itself...
Chairman-Designate Allen will be primed to greet that boom when it arrives. A stout, genial chemist with old-school ties (Harrow, Oxford's Trinity College), Allen is a steam-railway buff who has written six books (Narrow Gauge Railways of Europe, Steam on the Sierra) on the subject. A former head of I.C.I.'s plastics division and Canadian operations, he is also a cost-conscious businessman who is quick to criticize corporations for "gathering information that is not needed, collecting useless statistics and disseminating unimportant knowledge...
...small force of pickets will greet the expected crowd of 35,000 at Soldiers' Field this afternoon...
...doubt, but far more satisfaction and much greater consequence. Poets do their best work young, philosophers late. Nations, I would argue, do it in the middle years, and these are now upon us in America, and it should be with a sense of expectation rather than dread that we greet them. I will argue further that properly used, this could be a time of great expectation. Some years ago the French Dominican, Father Bruckberger declared in the sensitive translation of Gouveneur Paulding that, "Either America is the hope of the world, or it is nothing." I believe that still...
...their cars after services for coffee and doughnuts at the snack bar. Some pastors try to talk briefly with churchgoers as they roll out through the gates; the Rev. James Wallace Hamilton of Pasadena Community Church in St. Petersburg, Fla., even encourages his mobile congregation to greet visiting preachers with "a gentle, dignified horn toot...