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...district beneath the dust and roar of the el. A nervous boy, he belonged to a grade-school group that met one night a week at the Webster Literary Club, where each boy would write and read a composition and all would discuss them. When the family began to prosper, they moved to Everett, a Boston suburb, where Harry attended high school. His grades (79 in French, 85 in chemistry) gave no clear sign of his later brilliance...
...Andhra's chief minister of state. Then he warned 100,000 new Andhrans in Kurnool that they should not set themselves aside from India. India was the mansion, states such as Andhra its rooms. "The spirit of unity should prevail," he said, "if the country is to prosper...
...people who prosper move their homes and stores to the suburbs, out to the sunlight and trees, but the millions who follow the same deadly routine every day, year in and year out, see no improvement in their lives, and many don't have the nerve or ambition to want any. These are our starving ones-not starved for food, but for stable home life, religious training, proper channeling of talents toward making a productive livelihood, ability to amuse themselves...
...Poor little Jules" was no dynamo. He could not, like his mistress, write for 14 hours at a stretch and then mount a horse and gallop to a lovers' tryst. Soon he was dropped by the wayside, and George moved on to Novelist Prosper Merimee. Merimee, as Maurois vouches, "was of the race from which the Devil picks his Don Juans," and spoke of love "with all the coarseness of a medical student"; George hoped that his cynicism would cure her "childish susceptibilities." But "Don Juan failed utterly to come up to scratch...
...main reason why [postwar] Britain has not yet prospered sufficiently . . . is that the British people as a whole have not yet had the will to prosper. Neither government nor opposition dares allow itself to be disclosed fully facing the facts." What most worried the Times was the too-popular conviction that somehow, somewhere, "there is a formula that of itself will cure the country's ills ... A new Elizabethan Age," warned the Thunderer, "is in danger of becoming an incantation, a magician's hey presto, as if the nation's new stature could be established merely...