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...hillside. The hero-known in the novel as Don Fabrizio, prince of the House of Salina-simply lives out the death of his class, the feudal landed gentry. The only action is inaction. But to mistake the story for the subject is to assume that a pearl is about grit. Amateur Novelist Lampedusa's real interest and achievement is to fashion an elegy for a predemocratic way of life, to evoke the melodramatic landscape of Sicily and fix its people against the backdrop of Italy's struggle for unification, like figures on a frieze...
Confiscation & Forbearance. What is the U.S. to do? For the time being, the U.S. will continue to grit its teeth and pursue a policy of patience. Secretary of State Herter says that the President is still opposed to taking economic countermeasures, such as cutting Cuba's sugar quota. The nation is already in difficult financial straits; its foreign-exchange reserves are down to $88 million, while debts abroad come to between $80 million and $100 million, much of it for the huge arms-buying program...
...composition was guided by the forms of the series-the sixes, the quadrilaterals, the triangles . . . The listener has to get down and look up through the series, so to speak." Scored for a moderate-sized orchestra and piano (expertly played at the première by Mar-grit Weber), the piece has no continuity in the normal sense. A lean, nervous composition, it proceeds in jagged skips and jumps. Its impetus derives from its rhythms-crotchety, erratic and often as arresting as a movie played at constantly shifting speeds. "One does not find it a memorable experience-at least...
...grit to the core...
...dormitory, graduate or undergraduate, has a resident doctor. It is our firm belief that a doctor should be on call to make house visits, or, if this is not to be our privilege, we should not be forced to pay $56.50 to be told to pack up our things, grit our teeth, and march off to Stillman. If this is Radcliffe's version of socialized medicine, we would prefer to get our money back and call our own doctors, who would, we hope, come when we needed them. In the last analysis, it is the inhumanity of the present system...