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...hoped to "be among those who shall revive the splendor of the 15th century." The son of a stiff-necked Yankee pastor, he conceived the notion that art can be purely "intellectual." While Morse was at Yale, President Timothy Dwight regularly admonished his students against all kinds of fun. "Recollect," Dwight would cry out, "that you are to give an account of your conduct at the last day." Samuel Morse felt quite at home in this stringent atmosphere. Along with painting, he dabbled in electricity, which alarmed his father. "Your natural disposition,'' warned the elder Morse, "renders...
...Brotherhood of Teamsters, angrily shrilling the Fifth Amendment and standing revealed as a man who would enrich himself at the expense of an old friend's widow. And last week there was Beck's heir apparent, Teamsters' Central Conference Boss Jimmy Hoffa, who was unable to "recollect" teaming with a union-busting racketeer to defeat the work of his own union. Beck, Hoffa and dozens of similar stripe were precious poor exhibits for Peter McGuire's better age and more chivalrous time...
...Navy-including the Olympics-before the last of the Olympians earned their commissions and spread out into various odd channels (five are in the U.S. Air Force) from Biloxi to Hong Kong. Together again, the Admirals were working out an answer to a tough question: Could they recollect their old skill and stamina in time...
Averting the Gaze. Under the reign of the present King's grandfather, King Abdullah, that stream had been kept under a measure of control. "I recollect so well one evening," Glubb recalls in an affectionate sidelight, "when King Abdullah was visited by a deputation of venerable-Moslem religious leaders and began to question them on religious subjects. 'Is it lawful to look at a pretty girl if you meet her on the street?' inquired His Majesty...
...Lizzie's new success has not made her forget the beauties of the good old days. "I remember here come Jelly Roll Morton passing our house, on the way to play in Storyville," she muses. "I recollect Ory and Oliver. It used to be it was so hot they'd drop one suspender, open their shirts and their pants so's they'd be comfortable, and would they play! The music then was different. Everybody played close. They listened to each other. They played a strong melody and pretty, pretty chords. Nowadays, they play before...