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...presided over the interminable treaty negotiations in Brussels. One reason why the near completion of the Common Market has burst on Europe as a surprise is that Spaak has learned from the past mistakes of would-be unifiers of Europe not to ask too much too fast, or to proclaim too soon exaggerated ambitions...
...Author Compton-Burnett has managed to ring wild, gay changes for more than 30 years (e.g., Bullivant and the Lambs, Two Worlds and Their Ways). But no matter how worn her plots may be, the conversation is sure to be spangled with jewels that, to her devoted followers, still proclaim her a Cartier of contemporary fiction...
...political prodigy. "His idea of a game," recalls J.R., still alive and alert at 83, "was to get a box to stand on and make a speech." With a lisp caused by two widely separated front teeth, Billy Knowland would get up on his box and proclaim: "Wepwethentative government ith the way we do thingth in thith country." The inscription on his grammar-school graduation program read: "Appearance-politician. Besetting sin-politics." At twelve he spoke for the Harding-Coolidge ticket. He thrilled to the drama of his first national convention in 1924, returned to take over the chairmanship, from...
...when all Europe was arumble with the thunder of revolt, young Poet Sandor Petofi and Lajos Kossuth, the lawyer son of a Magyarized Slovak family of the Hungarian petty nobility, together sparked Hungary's most successful revolution. Poet Petofi died in the fight. Lawyer Kossuth went on to proclaim himself the head of an independent Hungary, but his triumph was short-lived. Skillful players at the old European army game, the Habsburgs invited the Russians to move in from the East while they themselves bore down from the West. Between these two juggernauts, Kossuth's puny armies were...
...challenge that "more and more people are seeking a university education" be it hereby resolved that there be established a Society for the Contraction and Preservation of Harvard College, the broad purpose of which will be to protect the vested interests of those presently enrolled and to proclaim the motto that stone walls do not a prison make, nor ivy walls an education...