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CORRIDORS OF POWER, by C. P. Snow. Sir Charles stalks the British Establishment again. This time his quarry is a brilliant M.P. who hitches his considerable ambitions to a controversial cause but fails to reckon with the complex motivations of both friends and enemies...
CORRIDORS OF POWER, by C. P. Snow. Sir Charles stalks the British Establishment again. This time his quarry is a brilliant M.P. who hitches his considerable ambitions to an excellent cause but fails to reckon on the complex motivations of both friends and enemies...
Another farmer, to a white freedom worker: "If anyone, white or black, so much as hurts your little fingernail, he'll have to reckon with me and all the rest...
Another farmer, to a white freedom worker: "If anyone, white or black, so much as hurts your little fingernail, he'll have to reckon with me and all the rest...
Ungovernable Temper. It was the character of Beethoven that most fascinated Thayer, however, and he left a portrait of the man that every biographer, with varying degrees of embarrassment, has had to reckon with since. Thayer's Beethoven is a man of atrocious manners, immense ego and ungovernable temper who at one time or another turned on virtually every one of his friends and alienated most of the musicians of Vienna. His idea of a joke was to dump a bowl of gravy on a waiter who had brought him the wrong dish...