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From a bantering tone, Malraux turned skeptical on the subject of the hour-Europe. "It does not exist," he said, "and never has. It is the last of the great myths. Europe is a pink spot on the map. [In the Middle Ages it was] decided that there was a Europe because there was Christianity. Christianity was serious. Europe is a dream -for Europeans but also for others. I would like to know just how serious the American dream of Europe was. Did the leaders of America really ever believe in it?" The notion of a European Parliament was barely...
...doctrine that this is the best of all possible worlds. What follows in Voltaire's gleeful vision is a string of unmitigated but somehow good-natured disasters-banishment, war, scourging, mass slaughter, piracy, the Spanish Inquisition, slavery, concubinage-until at last the wanderers come to El Dorado. Leading pink sheep laden with glimmering ingots, Candide and Cunegonde arrive with their innocence reasonably intact, although such setbacks as her rape by a regiment of Bulgarian soldiers have left Cunegonde with a somewhat supple interpretation of purity...
...plant doctors often benefit mightily from basic ignorance. A New York housewife recently called Horticulturalist Peter Dunlop wailing that there was a pink snake in her plant. Dunlop, incredulous, asked how long it was, three feet, two, one? It turned out to be an inchworm. Another New York housewife recently expended the last half-gallon of gas in the family car to rush her ailing plant to the nearest cactus clinic. "It's stopped growing," she cried, "and the leaves keep falling off. I've tried everything, from Mozart to peat moss. What am I doing wrong...
...airliner taxied to the far end of the terminal at Frankfurt's Rhein-Main Airport. From the first-class exit emerged a husky 55-year-old man with a distinctive fringe of red beard. At the bottom of the ramp, a German hostess handed him a single pink rose; he smiled faintly and bowed over her hand. As police held a swarm of newsmen at bay, the traveler got into a Mercedes-Benz limousine that whisked him to the tiny village of Langenbroich, 100 miles away. Arriving at his host's small farmhouse, he was welcomed in the harsh glare...
...Rath place and whisper about her--while the adults are busy with the New Year. The Rath's new neighbor, Mary Beth Twyman, aged 19, was married two days ago Saturday in Holy Cross Chapel in a waltz-length white peau--de--soire dress and a crown of pink pearls, and as she drove off with her husband in his new model Camaro, a St. Christopher's charm dangled from the rear view mirror. December saw 25 houses finished in one arm of the Troy development and a turnover of almost 100 people. It's a place in transition where...