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...Secretary of State Henry Kissinger quoted an Arabic expression -"Illi fat mat" (the past is dead)-and recommended that negotiators be guided by it during the days of difficult bargaining ahead. Said Kissinger: "The great tragedies of history occur not when right confronts wrong, but when two rights face each other. We are challenged by emotions so deeply felt that the tragic march from cataclysm to cataclysm sometimes seems preordained. Yet our presence here today is a symbol of rejection of this fatalistic view...
Itaque Case coepit scribere fabulam heroicam quam discipuli legere amarent. Appellabatur Daimon, et incipi-bat simplicissime: "Olim erat in insula Herakleia puer nomine Daimon . .." Case primas paucas paginas exhibuit quattuor ex suis discipulis et hi constituerunt illi auxilium ferre ad fabulam scribendam. Case dixit: "Ab eventu ad eventum procedebamus, intellexi, si pueri ipsi fabulam invenirent, certe excitaturam esse...
...miles barbatus procellosusque (qui baculum habes) et illc umbraculatus Scotus sive sobrius sive ebrius. Nec non omittendi sunt tu, edax Rolande, nec vos, ancillac pellaces, nec vos, sodales quibus socci albi ct ollac ct peniculus semper gloriac sunt, ncc certe tu, adiutor promptissime, fidelis verborum fons et thesaure. Denique illi imperatori histrico ct prologo qui nomen cst Petro, super quem illi hanc comoediam condiderunt, laudes optimac maximac! Gaudeamus igitur, et semper floreat grex totus...
...took 75 years for the Lincoln legend to develop to the point where playing Abraham Lincoln (in Abe Lincoln in Illi nois) could be a peak in the career of an actor like Raymond Massey. The Edison legend is just beginning in the movies which Edison invented. What the rest of the legend would be like depended in part on who interpreted the first installment...
...balance to a section which still maintains the old ideals of the Republic, which is not owned by its pocketbook, and which has never made a god of its bank account. To elect a President without the sordid assistance of New York, and the hardly less sordid assistance of Illi- nois, would be a double triumph. Even to lose the Presidency by a small margin in such circumstances would be a moral victory that Mr. Wilson could always remember with pride. The cash-register patriotism of New York has been spat upon by a virile American West that is keeping...