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...weeks before his death and the fall of the Third Reich. Each volume contains from 75 to 100 pages, written in black ink, many bearing Hitler's signature at the bottom. Upon completion, each diary was wrapped with a thin red cord and sealed with a red wax imprint of the swastika...
When he was six or seven and spending many of his days in British hospitals, a nurse gave Dudley Moore a good-night kiss. Her name was Pat, and 40 years later he can still feel the imprint of her lips on his cheek. He describes it in Proustian terms. "I almost spin when I think of it," he says. "She was truly an angel of mercy, and that kiss was probably the first taste of real, unqualified, uncomplicated affection I had ever had. In many ways my entire life is based on recapturing that single moment of affection...
While the C.F. Murphy firm designed many noted buildings over the past 45 years, the first prominent building to show Jahn's personal imprint is Chicago's recently completed Xerox Center. It is straight Mies with one sweeping, un-Miesly rounded corner. Jahn's later design for Chicago's One South Wacker office building demonstrates a less graceful bent toward changed public taste...
...most Americans, the letters GG are recognizable only as the links on stylish men's loafers or the imprint on pricey women's handbags...
...with an aching sense of longing the serene beauty of the Samarian hills, the sweet-smelling orange groves of Jericho, the mellow light of the Old City of Jerusalem. There is an air of great antiquity about the place, as if history had paused there and left its indelible imprint. Gnarled olive trees cling to the arid slopes, and oxen and donkeys plow the terraced hillsides, much as they did when Jesus walked the paths of Palestine. In the evenings, women still gather at the village well to fill their earthen jugs, while in the thorny Judean hills, shepherds sing...