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...City and the Pillar...
...many times before, the Republicans' Vandenberg was leading the fight for the Administration's foreign policy. One day last week, clad in a gleaming white linen suit, Vandenberg took the Senate floor to present a resolution, which was the next great pillar in the slowly building structure of U.S. postwar foreign policy...
...style and feeling, Fall River Legend reminded some balletomanes of Antony Tudor's somber Pillar of Fire. But it had plenty of De Mille trademarks too: miming, scurrying, fast-paced freshness...
...slick-magazine fiction. The editors regard "evaluating currently dominant literary reputations" as part of their charter. Accordingly, Vol.1, No.1 gave the back of its hand to the "dreary wastes" of homosexuality in Truman Capote's Other Voices, Other Rooms, and Gore Vidal's The City and the Pillar. Some other little magazines, just popped up or popping...
...high, tight academic turban, sharpens his reed quills, tucks his inkhorn into his belt, takes off his slippers, and enters Al Azhar mosque. There he joins one of the attentive circles of cross-legged students gathered at the feet of a sheikh (elder, i.e., teacher), who leans against a pillar and expounds Islamic faith and Arabic letters...