Word: hards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Honorary Academician Extraordinary Winston Churchill, who sat with him at the speakers' table. "Not long ago," he recalled, "Mr. Churchill and I were walking together. Mr. Churchill said to me, 'Alfred, if we saw Picasso coming down this street towards us, would you join me in kicking hard a certain part of him?' I said, 'By God, Winston, I would...
...selection of material is ruthlessly right. The war story, for most of its path, crashes like a hurtling tank through the forest of events. But the hard unity and rounded drama of each chapter brakes the rush, preserves a sense of direction, and imposes a feeling of historic logic. The pictures themselves satisfy, or fail to, in about the same degree and frequency as actuality itself. Yet now & again, as actuality can, a few moments blaze with the fire of art. Items...
...moment unaware of the clapping; he was nodding his grey head and smiling to his musicians in appreciation. Then he turned and gravely faced the audience. Ten minutes and five curtain calls later, he quieted them for some words. Said he, so softly that some in the back could hardly hear: "I knew it would be hard to separate myself from you, my public, and my dear orchestra. But let's be happy that we have had 25 years together. Let's be happy that we have worked and created the greatest orchestra in the world...
Hiding was his own idea, Paul Makushak said: he had just not liked the way the world was going. Certainly no one should blame his mother. The police, who get used to strange things, looked hard at the small hideaway and sniffed. They were not sure Makushak had been living there for a decade, but someone had been living there messily for a long time...
...child find out, by the oldfashioned, hard way, that fire hurts; a little blister is better than interference with a crawling child's new-found freedom, or than making fire into something forbidden and therefore tempting...