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Thursday morning at 7, he breakfasted with Moore and Wayne Taylor. Calvin Hoover arrived. A blonde secretary arrived. ECA began to hum. Hoffman rushed off to lunch with Acting Secretary of State Robert Lovett, met Moore and the others later in the old State Department building, where they took possession of four high-ceilinged rooms which had once been the suite of General John Pershing...
Composer Menotti, who dislikes most modern music ("Where is the melody?"), is a man who crams his own with things to hum. Critics sometimes complain that his music sounds 19th Century and facile. But audiences take it at its own cheerful level...
Above the hum of eulogy and the clank of banquet silverware, two Republican voices sounded most clearly.* One was Governor Tom Dewey's. In Boston, in a speech on foreign policy, he laid low once & for all the charge that he is unwilling to take a stand on crucial campaign issues. He endorsed the Marshall Plan to the "full sum which has been requested," called for internationalization of the Ruhr and the immediate economic unity of Europe. He also blasted the Democrats for "the policies which resulted in surrendering 200 million people in Middle Europe into the clutches...
...sound like sea chanties and are as complex as a Bach fugue. Singers found themselves singing one duet written in different keys. There were none of the arias that most Italian operas hand out like a free lunch-but the audience would find at least a few things to hum...
Sufferer. Jeremiah, according to Author Paterson, "was the most hum,an of all the prophets, and at the same time the most Christ-like." Commanded by Jehovah to take no wife, Jeremiah reveals himself in his writings as a lonely and humble man whose life was torn between two loves, "my people" and "my God." Writes Paterson: "The other prophets of the Old Testament seem to stand at the side of God and hurl their words of doom down upon the people, but Jeremiah seems to stand between the people and God and gather to his own bosom...