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...stop being an open Communist and had gone underground. It was the morning after the Reichstag fire, in 1933, when the Nazis declared open season on Communists (whom they falsely accused of setting the fire). Fuchs read the story in a newspaper, riding on a train. "I took the hammer & sickle from the lapel of my coat where I had carried it," Shawcross quoted Fuchs as saying. "I was ready to accept the philosophy of the party as right in the coming struggle." The Chief Justice, listening with hard lines of patience on his face, opened the small silver...
...influence of Levis spread, they changed a little with the times. "Alkali," a Virginia City miner, insisted on carrying rock specimens that ripped his hip pockets. The local tailor wearied of repairing them, one day seized a hammer and riveted the corners down with square iron nails. When this made Alkali practically rip-proof, Levi Strauss picked up the idea, from then on fastened all his pants' pockets with copper rivets...
...Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! rage! blow" raised the petty rumblings of the sheet-metal-and- hammer boys behind stage to the stature of an expression of Nature; his "Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life, and then no breath at all? over the corpse of Cordelia was pure pathos. In portraying the fall of Lear from king to disillusioned father, to madman, to dying, bereaved old man, Devlin combines the grandeur of the king and the weakness of the old man. He binds the magnificent curse of his miscreant daughter Generil ("Into her womb convey...
Things are just as bad at the Molot [Hammer], on Rusakov Street: "There are piles of dirt in the corners. For four years the same [photo] exhibit has been shown. Regular customers at the Molot know that exhibit by heart. The newspapers in the reading room are a year old." Moviegoers may write their gripes in a Complaints Register, but it does not do much good. Reported Evening Moscow's crusading newsmen: "Once a patron asked a question. Mme. Nosovaya, the cashier, refused to answer him. The manager entered in the book: 'The cashier was too busy...
When handsome young Czech Pianist Rudolf Firkusny took his first crack at the U.S. concert stage in 1938, he thought "big bravura playing" was the way to hammer U.S. critics into submission. But about the highest praise the New York Times could manage was that he "successfully held the attention of the audience." Firkusny, then 25-"much too young," he says now-tried a short U.S. tour without much more luck, then headed for home a little sadder and a great deal wiser...