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...rambling music. Occasionally the familiar Shostakovitch brilliance and poignancy would glimmer for a while through the swamp, but never for long. For the most part, he had loosely strung together a collection of movie-scenario devices which might have been an effective background to a documentary film but were powerless in themselves to suggest more than confusion and weariness of spirit...
...heart up, times I think I'm jus' obliged to die." When Mrs. Rawlings fell from her horse and broke her neck, 'Geechee cared for her tenderly. But she taught Mrs. Rawlings' other two Negroes to drink. One morning Author Rawlings "awoke to pandemonium." Powerless to move in her steel brace, she heard stove lids hurled, plates smashed, shrieks. Every so often 'Geechee would stagger in to reassure her: "Kate an' Raymond's fightin', but don't you worry." "The bacon done burnt itself up, but don't you fret...
Coach Earl Brown's charges appeared to have the right formula until the last minute of play, when Lawry's magnificent consecutive string of 12 set shots finally took their toll despite the gallant Crimson defense, which was powerless against the magnificent Sophomore who could tally from any point on the floor...
...Help is surely coming-help of sufficient adequacy and power that the invader will be driven from our midst and he will be rendered powerless ever to threaten us again...
Disillusioned because democracy had not prevented Hitler's rise, Siemens lived unhappily in Berlin, a powerless trustee of his own great fortune. Last week, at 68, he died