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...largest parcel of the collection consists of the 36 pieces of Chamber Music, first published in 1907. In this sequence of lyrics 25-year-old Joyce gave his version of love's old sweet song. Among apple trees and amid green woods, far removed from the bleeding tarts and coal-quay whores of Ulysses' Dublin, the young lover sings the praises of his "dove," his "beautiful one"-half angel, half virgin; he finally persuades her to undo the snood ''that is the sign of maidenhood"; and ends up in the classic predicament of all lyric lovers...
...read in a low drone from a thick typewritten sheaf of papers. In 15 minutes his audience had dwindled to ten people. An urchin went around begging nickels, got only one. At 10:49 Mr. Berven finished his reading and called out: "Do I hear any bid for Parcel No. i. ... ?" He heard nothing. "Do I hear," asked Mr. Berven, dabbing his brow, "any bid for the properties of St. Mary's College in their entirety?" Two mustached men in panama hats edged up and one of them said: "Leland Groezinger and Gerald S. Levin, as joint tenants...
Attempts were made to mail food and clothing into the plants. Local postmasters refused to accept such parcels on the ground that they were "unusual" shipments and the Post Office had for "30 years" had a rule against making unusual shipments in troubled areas. Steel company officials then charged that a parcel of medicine for a man in one of the besieged plants was opened and sent on its way only after two union leaders had passed upon its contents. To Postmaster General Farley, Republic sent a vigorous protest...
...office." At that point Mr. Abbott muttered: "Adjournment is now taken.'' Picking up his brief case, he stalked into the offices, looked around for an empty desk, hung up his hat and coat, got out more documents. No one paid any attention. He had 14 parcels of property to offer. At the end of each description he said: "How much am I offered for properties described and constituting parcel so-&-so?" The clerks did not even look up. After a pause Mr. Abbott would say inaudibly, "no bid." Finally he picked up his documents, returned to wait...
...unique significance in the field of English letters there can be no doubt. Its phraseology has become part and parcel of our common tongue--bone of its bone and flesh of its flesh. Its rhythms and cadences, its turns of speech, its familiar imagery, its very words, are woven into the texture of our literature, prose and poetry alike. Yet it is of the Orient, we of the West; it is a translation, not an original; and it has reached us by way, not of one language only, but of three. What is it, then, in this translation, which...