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...arietta by Lully (Louis XIV's favorite composer), sung in a sweetly plaintive soprano voice. From the 17 great windows of the Hall of Mirrors, lights blaze as courtiers chatter and fawn. In the distance a voice proclaims, "Gentlemen, the King!" The monarch's cane clumps louder and louder on the floor as he approaches, and a burst of triumphal music rings out as "the greatest King" enters...
Trujillo became a Roosevelt client March i, just eleven days before Galindez, a Basque-born teacher of Latin American politics at Columbia University, finished an evening class, started home, and vanished. Lawyer Roosevelt doggedly ignored the ever louder suspicion, held by the press and even the New York police, that Client Trujillo was responsible for kidnaping Galindez. "I never heard of Galindez!" Roosevelt complained on the night of April 12, when anti-Trujillo exiles in Manhattan threatened to picket a Democratic fund-raising dinner for which he was toastmaster.* In the Dominican Republic, Dictator Trujillo's kept press played...
...crew in a mist of insecticide. The picture, praised by the critics for its "visual power," was drowned in a downpour of public inattention. Killer's Kiss came next, a story about a pug and a floozy; financed by some friends of the family, it thudded even louder than its predecessor...
...back, feet up. Critic for Algemeen Handelsblad makes note for next day's review: "Tenor saxophonist lies on ground and copulates with his shimmering instrument." Hampton rattles drumsticks on his soles. Calls out "Hey bob-a-reebob!" Crowd calls (Dutch accent) "Hey bob-a-reebob!" Fellow cries "Louder, louder...
...Rebellion Tree stood for open defiance during the nineteenth Century. The spirit it engendered in the undergraduate becomes clear in an excerpt from a poem entitled "The Rebellion," written by a student in memory of the Riot of 1819: "But Oh! the Sophs! their frantic yells Were louder far than lecture bells They form'd a ring about the Tree, And to this solemn oath agree: 'By This Almighty Plant, we swear. 'We will not flinch a single hair 'Until the laws of College rot, 'And government is sent...