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...hottest week of the summer broke over Washington in a wave. Heat glazed the great white buildings, shimmered above the empty streets. President Roosevelt, sweating like the humblest Government employe, held his press conference in the stifling Executive office, worked in his shirt sleeves at his desk in the oval study. The historic summer of 1940-historic if historians of the future would be permitted to write as they have in the past-mounted to its climax, as hot as the summer when the aging Buchanan decided there was nothing he could do to prevent the South from seceding...
...symphonic form, but allowing the composer to start on as low a level as he wishes, and move swiftly and cleanly to the peaks. Sibelius's symphonies, especially the last three, have an absolutely economy of notes. Yet within this seemingly small framework, and out of what seem the humblest thematic threads, they weave climaxes of epic dimensions...
...roused the King of Fugue's dander: afterwards, in Leipzig, Bach went to work. He elaborated Frederick's theme into a monumental score which he named Musikalisches Opfer (Musical Offering) and sent it to the King, with a felicitous dedication: "To Your Majesty is proffered herewith in humblest obedience a musical offering, whose most excellent portion originates from your noble hand...
...proof reader tried to save my hide by putting in..."(the name escapes me at the moment)"...but it was a boner and to all of you that called and wrote in, my humblest apologies. Incidentally, the name of the thing was "Honeysuckle Rose"--as arranged by Fletcher Henderson...
...Baptist message is non-sacerdotal, non-sacramentarian and nonecclesiastical. Its teaching is that the one High Priest for sinful humanity has entered into the holy place for all, that the veil is forever rent in twain, that the mercy seat is uncovered and open to all, and that the humblest soul in all the world, if he be truly penitent, may enter with all boldness and cast himself upon Christ...