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...Swiss Echo Song as an encore. President Benjamin Harrison, seated in a special box at the side of the stage, leaned toward Vice President Levi Morton and murmured, "New York surrenders, eh?" So it seemed that night in the magnificent hall, proudly proclaimed on the program to be "the Parnassus of modern civilization...
...criminal. At length Washington relents, and Howard is freed. Yet freedom is the last thing he wants. A private hero and a public traitor, a pawn sacrificed to patriotism, he sentences himself to death "for crimes against himself." Author Vonnegut's writing style is a long way from Parnassus; the satire sometimes vanishes in polemic...
...pleasantly arrogant young Briton and his pretty, skittish twin sister are unwittingly trapped in the warfare between a cell of Black Muslim-type activists and a clutch of Negro-baiting neoFascists. Eventually the twins bob up at an international Fascist jamboree atop Mount Parnassus, where the Negroes attack the Fascists in their meeting-tent, then rape and murder the sister. The hero escapes to go home to pamphleteer in the cause of tolerance, and to get himself happily married. "The answer to everything," he concludes, is contained "within the magic of reciprocal love." Author Benedictus' discursive, Edwardian elegance...
...along, a valuable asset lay hidden: bauxite, the basic raw material from which aluminum is made. Now a French-Greek-American combine called Aluminum of Greece has built the country's largest plant, a $135 million factory on the Bay of Antikyra in the shadow of Mount Parnassus. The plant not only brings Greece a whole new industry, aluminum, but by itself will double again the country's industrial exports by August...
Bearded Eminence. Still, Fields's Old Corner Book Store at one time seemed like Parnassus. Authors and editors gathered there daily to exchange puns and peanuts, to speculate, perhaps, about the success of Dickens' proposed lecture tour, and to gibe wittily at the shoddy products of the rival literary capital in New York. On the same morning a junior clerk might receive an elaborate good morning from Longfellow and an impersonal purchase order from the shy Hawthorne. In either case, the great man would soon wander to the rear of the store to join the crowd in Fields...