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...Consequently, he is unlikely to change his mind about it after he has signed up, has a much clearer picture of what will happen to him next term and can plan the rest of his program accordingly. This informed person probably will add neither his name to the petition pile nor his person to the shopper horde...
...went to the icy window, peered down the street in the hope of a glimpse of her husband. Unemployed now, he had gone out ahead of her to queue up at the greengrocer's for a few potatoes. Mrs. Chimes turned to her tiny kitchen and a pile of clothes awaiting washing. She sighed...
...London, on a grey day that set the mood for gloom, there was brazen disregard of the blackout in many stores and homes. The great grey pile of Buckingham Palace showed a few lights. In about half of the grimy little shops on Soho's back streets the lights were full on for everybody to see. But along majestic Regent Street soft, flickering candlelight illumined windows. Silversmiths and jewelers put their best Georgian candlesticks to use, but most of them took small items off the counters in fear of shoplifters in the semidarkness. Most of London's West...
Meanwhile the Speakers Committee has prepared a stock-pile of rabbit-extricators, vocalists, and assorted talented undergrads, who are shipped out to near by institutions on request. Current events forums are the new thing on the agenda of this group, in addition to plans for sponsoring of amateur settlement house dramatics...
...unschooled ear, the harpsichord jangles like a regiment of mice scurrying through a pile of coins. But its connoisseurs find in the harpsichord rarefied and rustling harmonies, comparable to a choir of flutes and mandolins. When Landowska began, nobody was writing harpsichord music; it was a dead art. Composers like Francis Poulenc (her student for a year) and the late Manuel De Falla wrote harpsichord music for her. Said she: "It was a battle, you have no idea what a battle it was, to impose the harpsichord upon the musical world. When I started before 1900, the tradition...