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...were, how crumpled their uniforms! They did not seem proud to be French citizens; there was a hangdog look about them . . . The people are poorly dressed; the women have colorless, frizzy hair, the men grey faces, and they walk as if defeated . . . The weather was grey. Paris seemed numb ... I would have to relearn France and get back into my own skin...
...idea of the tour was to read and discuss the books right on their authors' old stamping grounds-or as close to the grounds as possible. By last week everyone was feeling a trifle numb. "It's been very interesting, of course," said one traveler. "Like when we were in Florence we studied Dante and somebody else. I forget exactly...
...broken, Joe?" The player's leg is numb. "When will it start to throb...
London's Covent Garden exploded with applause at the first appearance in six months of Britain's Prima Ballerina Margot Fonteyn. An attack of diphtheria last October had left strange complications. Her legs and arms were numb and nerveless. In January she said: "At the moment, I can't do even the easiest dance." By last week she felt ready to appear in the undemanding ballet Apparitions, and summoned her oldest friends to rally round. Instead of a few friendly faces, she drew a capacity audience of some 2,000 which gave Margot 14 curtain calls...
...long memoir of Orwell's early school days, is a masterpiece of narrative. No one has evoked more memorably the brutality young boys can show each other, the elaborate code of honor that prevails among them. "In winter," wrote Orwell, "your nose ran continually, your fingers were too numb to button your shirt . . . and there was the daily nightmare of football -the cold, the mud, the hideous greasy