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...Perched on the loftiest throne in the world, we are still sitting on our own behind. -Montaigne...
...heavily Negro schools in Philadelphia that are striving mightily to emulate New York City's pioneering "Higher Horizons" program. The premise is that a child who can look, figuratively, over the horizons of a slum will get out of it. Speeth has lifted the horizon to the loftiest levels of literary and artistic achievement-and has made an exemplary success...
...this. Handsome stone-and-glass office and apartment buildings are sprouting all over Atlanta. In the past two years workmen put the finishing touches on such major new downtown structures as a 22-story, $12 million Atlanta Merchandise Mart, and a 31-story headquarters for the Bank of Georgia, loftiest skyscraper in the Southeast. This year city officials expect to issue around $120 million worth of new building permits. From 1950 to 1960 metropolitan Atlanta's population jumped 40% to 1,017,188 and is still growing at the rate of 30,000 a year. The gracious belle...
...Black's view." In San Francisco, David E. Snodgrass, dean of the University of California's Hastings College of the Law, felt that "Black has gone off the deep end on this one." Against such critics Justice Black preserved the traditional silence of the nation's loftiest bench. But few newspapers and magazines are likely to follow his lead and challenge the libel laws. The press is well aware that Justice Black's extreme position is-to put it in lower case-a minority opinion...
Djuna Barnes has long been the dark lady of the New Directions anthologies, and in the '30s, when difficult writers were in vogue, her shadowy short novel Nightwood won the loftiest of testimonials. Every earnest Lit. undergraduate read the New Classics edition, with its foreword by T. S. Eliot praising its "great achievement of style, beauty of phrasing, brilliance of wit and characterization, and a quality of horror and doom very nearly related to that of Elizabethan tragedy...