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...hand to stop the music. On the verge of verbally chastising a murmuring sector of the audience, words failed him, but the murmuring stopped. Later, after a second dose of the silent treatment, the noisemakers got the point. At the end of the concert, Conductor de Sabata bowed to louder-than-ordinary applause...
...grave," says Thornton Wilder, "they will write: 'Here lies a man who tried to be obliging.' " And he gives a nervous bark of laughter-the laugh, slightly louder than the occasion warrants, of a man accustomed to putting strangers at their ease...
...there would be no jihad. The Koranic doctrine-which once spelled unremitting, no-quarter battle between the Abode of Islam1 and the Abode of War until Islam triumphed-has softened to a practical acceptance of co-existence of Moslem and infidel. As the Moslem world grew weaker, fanatics called louder & louder for jihad, but met less & less response. When the degenerate Turkish Sultan-Caliph proclaimed a jihad against the Allies in 1914, it was cynically dubbed the "Holy War Made in Berlin." It was the last real jihad and an utter failure...
...come along since the war. He put his proposals to the country as fast as he put them to the Assembly, then calmly told the Deputies: here it is; approve it, or give the responsibility to someone else. The reaction from back home suddenly sounded louder & clearer than the Parisian sidewalk café arguments so dear to French politicians...
...government has refused to take any action, but each day the grumblings of the nationalists grow louder. Cried Herut, official organ of the extreme right-wing Freedom Party: "The souls of these children [in mission schools] are being systematically destroyed. The future of the nation is in danger...