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...figure rises, moves slowly towards the door, sways slightly, impervious to the thunder which rises like a cloud from the floor, trembles in the pendant air. The courage of Smith. Coward! I lack the ordinary manhood to rise and hand in this paper. When I was twelve years old . . . my stepfather hit me on the head with a paper-weight, . . . surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life. I will sit here, afraid to leave until the last minute has ticked itself into obscurity, because an inferiority complex shall follow me all the days...
...bronze of the cannon, the other, its strength in repose for the moment, holding the sword-scabbard lightly at his thigh. Only Titian could have painted the deep crimson velvet of the doublet, the soft fur of the collar, the liquid blue of the sapphire, the glint of the pendant pearl on his chest. Surely our picture is one of the great achievements...
...Lady, pendant from that strap...
...standard, brown or gray; white piping in vest. (He would feel naked without fountain pen and silver pencil in vest pocket.) Neck-tie-purple knitted or tapestry with stringless brown harps among blown palms; snakehead stickpin with opal eyes. Jewelry-Boosters' Club lapel button; elk-tooth watch-chain pendant. Spectacles-huge, frameless, with gold ear-crooks. Shoes-black, laced, uninteresting.-ED. Pessimist...
...Lecture, "La France, pays degrands sculpteurs pendant huit siecles," by M. Arsene Alexandre, in Fogg Lecture Room...