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These were bold, proud words. But underlying them is the deepest of all De Gaulle's convictions: "Glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her." In 1958, obedient to his maxim, glory gave herself to Charles de Gaulle...
Besides the consistently polished singing by both choruses, there were two individual performances of unusually high quality. The first was a very moving solo by John A. Maxim, Jr. in the Heath work, and the other was Thomas Beveridge's simple yet eloquent reading of Mozart's "O Isis Und Osiris." Also worthy of note was the conducting of Fenno Heath, whose clarity and control were remarkable...
...this kind of situation is D.F.L.'s meat. According to Humphrey's favorite maxim: "Power goes to those who seek it." And by defining "seek" to mean the kind of hard work that Republicans dislike, D.F.L. thinks it has the key to power in Minnesota for at least a decade...
...judge from his record so far, Pope John XXIII will face the dangers and confusions of his era with the patience expressed by his favorite maxim of government, and probably with more force than it suggests. The maxim: Omnia videre, multa dissimulare, pauca corrigere-to see everything, to turn a blind eye on much of it, to correct a little...
...What gives it a special horror in this book is that it all happens to a little boy. Tanguy would surely have died but for a German friend named Gunther who mothered him, fired his flagging will to live, and, before his own death, left the boy a matchless maxim: "Leave hate to those who are too weak to love...