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...lunched with the Franklin Roosevelts at Hyde Park. Said Pacelli: "I enjoyed lunching with a typical American family." This trip was an eyeopener to American travelers who saw the statesman of the church riding in a plane break out his portable typewriter and vigorously go to work in midair...
...brusque manner that the left foot hit the ground on the strong beat. The ballerinas (who were very charming) tried to give us our marching beat, but the Grand March isn't designed for a quick step and besides the ballerinas with their count got our right feet in midair on the heavy beat. I figured this might be a hold-over from the Egyptian Army regulations, or it might be simply a ballet habit of spending the better part of one's working time up off the ground. I tried to look as though I were returning from...
...Department, the Department coldly advised him that he was classified as a deserter, but "didn't seem to want to do anything." When he checked into Fort McPherson again last week, he posed the Army quite a problem, which at week's end was still in midair...
...theme of Flotsam is one of the most massive, intimate and terrible derangements of human living within human memory. Remarque, able as he is, is not fully equal to it; perhaps no human talent could be. Besides, Flotsam has some lyric flights that droop in midair; some touches of sentimental sententiousness; some comedy too national quite to cross a border; one or two bits almost of cheapness. But Remarque, like Hemingway, has the rare ability to produce writing which is both a genuine work of art and popular; and to embody a generation. For that reason Flotsam is a deeply...
...Flat Rock, N.C. one of the first U.S.-born Ballet Russers who was allowed to dance under his own name; Frederic Franklin, exuberant British onetime hoofer; and two genuine Russians, Igor Youskevitch and Andre Eglevsky. These dancers perform capably the difficult leaps, entrechats (crossing of the feet in midair) tours en l'air (twirls in the air) demanded by the classic style...