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Where the grown-up of the 1900's lived enthralled by Horatio Alger's tales of the success brought about by honest virtue, today's adults savor passages like this one, from a recent popular novel...
Topping the evening was a takeoff on Tom Jones, with Jack Lemmon approximately re-creating the scene in which Tom eats dinner at an inn with a bright-eyed woman of palpable lust, staring into her eyes as both munch, chew and savor hunks of meat and chicken, licking their fingers and biting sensuously into ripe fruit until they cannot stand it any more and run upstairs for dessert. In Hollywood last week, it was Jack Lemmon, writer at Universal Pictures, and his secretary, played by his handsome wife, Felicia Farr. Entering his office in a very low-cut dress...
...Concerto seems to savor each instant, in a continued series of "Now! Now! Now!" At times, striking combinations of timbres stand out: for example, the violin, the large gong, and an open, bottom C on the cello; or again the celeste, Violin, and the clarinet. At other times, the solo violin and cello luxuriate in close and shifting harmonies. Elsewhere, Kirchner indulges in bombastic percussion: a fast run in the clarinet or strings leads to a bang...
Messkirch expects to savor his revenge when Mollendruz' father comes to see his son's grave. But his revenge goes sour. He learns that Otto was not killed by the enemy but by the Nazis, for plotting against the regime. Utterly broken, Messkirch can only stammer a few words of bogus comfort to the Frenchman, his enemy. "I had forgotten the skepticism of which I was so proud," he concludes. "I had abandoned myself to darkness, and darkness ruled over...
Frustration Tolerance. The lure of franchising is that small businessmen, by investing a little money and a lot of time, can savor the big-brotherly benefits of a widely known name, cooperative advertising, "protected" territories and a stream of practical booklets that program the steps to success. To break into business, franchisees put up as little as $2,000 for a doughnut shop to as much as $1,300,000 for a Howard Johnson's motel. Once started, fewer than 10% of them fail...