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...full-blown Garbo has the old world offered to the new such a prepotent image of the eternal feminine as can be seen in the mysteriously soulful face of Maria Schell. It is the face of a princess in a German fairy tale. Her hair is still the palest gold, and it tumbles over her shoulders, when she lets it down, in quietly melodious loops. Her skin is white and perfect. Her mouth is delicate, and her smile almost too exquisitely sweet. Her eyes change, as the light changes, from blue to grey to green, and are unusually large; when...
...through a glass closed window /I ... tried to remember as the glass shattered / that this was freedom instead of death"; "the heart is a circle / shaped like a cross . . . / a mold of lava / a tender thing / a shriek in the pillow / a butterfly's wing"; "... a wine of palest color . . . / It tasted bitter as an herb used perhaps for poison / And yet I drank / believing that when I reached the bottom / it might be sweet...
There was evidence last week of the palest smidgen of truth in what he said. It appeared that Frankie was unable to square his own dentist for a federal job. The gentleman, Dr. Charles L. Singer, had been nominated to run the U.S. Assay Office in New York City, a $7,432.20-a year job traditionally earmarked for Tammany. Dr. Singer was deserving: he had twice been an elector for Franklin Roosevelt. He also knew what gold was; he had filled teeth with it. He was elated: "Imagine! A presidential appointment announced at the White House. It is quite...
...accusation. He said that the Western powers had welshed on a deal between Argentina's Juan Bramuglia and Russia's Andrei Vishinsky. U.S. Delegate Philip Jessup had a fine chance to tell the world that Stalin was a liar-and prove it. Instead, Jessup, using the palest diplomatese, gibble-gabbled: "If Stalin's reference to an agreed solution which subsequently was repudiated refers to any resolution agreed to by the three Western powers and the six neutrals, no such agreement ever existed. Therefore, there was no question of any violation...
...presence of such an actual situation as this, what becomes of Dumbarton Oaks? It is left the palest of ghosts. It slips through the corridors of the world's chancelleries so insubstantial a wraith that no man can lay hand on it and say, 'Here is a living, breathing, corporeal body!' . . . For what purpose, then, are the delegates going to Cleveland? Is it an invitation to a wake...