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...season opener, the San Francisco Opera picked Otello and cast Nelli in her old role of Desdemona. She tackled it without a qualm, despite the fact that, with diplomats overflowing the opera house for the Japanese Peace Treaty, early rehearsals had to be held in an old downtown theater. The only thing that gave her the slightest pause was a feeling that Conductor Fausto Cleva might not do things exactly Toscanini's way. But when the big moment came, Cleva did just fine ("He was perfect"), and Soprano Nelli covered herself with glory too, singing in a voice that...
...voted against his own party whenever he thought fit, and yet (as Pearson sadly admits) bequeathed to politics the tight "party-line" system that has plagued it ever since. No man did more than Dizzy to din radical notions into Tory skulls, yet he could also say without a qualm that "the movement of the middle classes for the abolition of slavery was virtuous, but it was not wise...
...face-lift he has rubbed shoulders with Newton, Einstein, Wilhelm (The Function of the Orgasm) Reich, Posture-Pundit F. Matthias Alexander. He has Browsed about among brain waves, cellular division, extrasensory perception, precognition. He has seen God as Whitehead and Jeans imagined him, and he can swallow without a qualm such strange phrases as "psychic penicillin" and "mattergy" (Wharton's word for interchangeable matter and energy...
...very faint qualm that, in a student council not as efficient, flawless, and unimpeachable as this one, the adjectival polysyllabicism might possibly adumbrate the latent pomposity which would seem to be inherent in the mind which is attracted to microcosmic politics...
...find out these things. We hope against hope that some day your leaders, who take such pride in having taught you how to read, will let you decide for yourselves what to read. Only then would you be able to read such a book as this without a qualm...