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...Complicity," she said louder. "Complicity, complicity." Now she was screaming. She howled the word five times, counting them off on one hand like so many points in a complicated chain of reasoning...
...Once the student has learned the basic techniques," he explains, "he is free to develop his genius." But acquiring the basis can be pretty harrowing. Mixed in with such practical counsel as how to wear tails and what to do about loud brass (ignore them or they will play louder), Swarowsky subjects his charges to a withering barrage of criticism. "Stop boxing," he grumbles, or "Stop moving your fanny; I'm not teaching ballet." Even a compliment may be prefaced with "That was the worst thing I have seen in my whole life." Such treatment, says Swarowsky, "strengthens their...
...jailers persisted in the hope of extracting a confession from him "so that we may be sure you have learned to respect the Soviet Union." Wynne never gave them that satisfaction, and was finally exchanged for a Soviet spy in British hands. A tale such as his resounds far louder than the hosannas of the Soviets' 50th-anniversary celebrations...
Future-Fan. That maiden attempt, though not terribly encouraging, was an echo from three decades ago, when Day-Lewis and the rest of the famous Oxford circle (W. H. Auden, Louis MacNeice, Stephen Spender) rumbled with even louder social comment. Like other "horizon-addicts and future-fans" of his time, Day-Lewis, in rebellion against his strict curate father, flirted briefly with Communism; he now recalls his stint as a party educator as "a signal instance of the blind leading the shortsighted." Protest verse did not sell, however, until a chance compliment from T. E. Lawrence was printed...
...like running a big family that is short of money. Be patient. Never move just because of your passions. If you do so, I will act against you. If shouting alone would bring down the price of rice, I would join you. I would even shout ten times louder, until my voice became hoarse. But the thing we have to do is work hard." Suharto's performance won over the students, who cheered him, joined him in chanting national slogans and then peacefully dispersed...