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...baldest form: "We are all excused from having to act. We are only spectators: we shall do no more than watch. And naturally, we shall also submit. ... We see hands move: and they're not ours. The gestures of a dream." The reverberations of Betti's grand debate resound from Professor Morgenthau's reflections on foreign policy to the amoral facade of the Beat Generation...

Author: By John E. Mcnees, | Title: The Burnt Flower-Bed | 7/30/1959 | See Source »

...primitive blast furnaces of mud brick. In the fields lanterns as numerous as fireflies cast a softer light over "shock troops" fighting "night battles" to bring in bumper crops of rice, sweet potatoes and cotton. By 6:30 in the morning the clean-swept streets of the teeming cities resound to the chanting of millions of voices as clerks, factory hands and bureaucrats, all clad in blue boiler suits, perform the mass calisthenics that herald the beginning of another ten-to twelve-hour working...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RED CHINA: The Year of the Leap | 12/1/1958 | See Source »

Died. Elsie Robinson, 73, gushy, widely read Hearstling whose syndicated column "Listen, World!" began twanging heartstrings in 1924, continued to resound after she was permanently bedridden following a 1940 accident; in San Francisco...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MILESTONES: Milestones, Sep. 17, 1956 | 9/17/1956 | See Source »

...three-foot walls for seven seconds. A recent demonstration of this phenomenon lasted only four seconds. However, the tenor explained that the furniture and tapestries were the cause of the failure, not his voice. The group now has its business office there. Typewriters and an occasional alumni sing resound in the room which once rang with cannons and court-martial, songs and firebells, actors and legislators, explosions and saws. Such noises would have shocked Mrs. Holden, but in another two centuries the chapel may once again echo sermons...

Author: By Henry Gritt, | Title: Changing Chapel | 3/15/1955 | See Source »

...Meat, Red Meat." Sir Winston wrote to Tory Candidate Tim Donovan: "By electing you, Holborn and St. Pancras will strike a blow which will resound through the land, and will increase our influence the world over. It is not often a single constituency can strike such a hefty blow for our island home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The Question at Holborn | 11/30/1953 | See Source »

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