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...cars laden with thousands of tons of wheat bound for Russia. At pierside, nine ships waited to load. But for nine days the wheat moved no farther. Thomas W. ("Teddy") Gleason, 63, president of the International Long shoremen's Association, had ordered his stevedores to touch not one kernel of cargo. The great wheat deal, it seemed, was stymied...
...inside Red China. The terrorists have blown up a blockhouse, a dynamite magazine, a bank, a stretch of railway near the borders of Hong Kong and Macao. An attempt was also made to destroy a Macao-Canton ferryboat, but it was foiled when crewmen discovered a tin labeled "Apricot Kernel Cakes with Meat Filling" behind a men's room mirror. It was a TNT bomb, and the passenger suspected of planting it was executed two weeks...
...Harvard student, or even of the Southern student at Harvard. They are rather the "old verities and truths of the heart." Faulkner's insistence on these verities became a recurrent theme whenever he talked about his own works, and beneath the sometimes self-conscious insistance lay a kernel of truth that gives Faulkner's body of writings a permanent place in world literature...
...quartet may be stormy, but its violence has no chaos or uncertainty, and the Claremont Quartet captured that assurance. Moevs's brash lines knew their they were going, and good coordination kept their melodic independence clear. The Quartet made the piece's kernel patterns of rhythm make good sense, most of all the second movement's curt syncopations...
...assuming that the lessons of truth learned by philosopher, professor, preacher, kings through protracted thought and laborious revelation can be taught to the average man. Is the "supreme worth" to be patiently taught and docilely learned, or is it rather to be discovered amongst wickedness, desire and imperfection, a kernel of redeeming grace...