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...Juilliard School of Music, they developed a passion for Renaissance music, decided it ought to be played as it was originally in the homes of the rich. Founders Gamson and Oxenburg achieved their place in the sun through awnings. "Mother," Gamson explains, "is in awnings-the Port Chester [N.Y.] Shade & Awning Co.-and since they are very expensive awnings only people with money buy them. Mother's list of customers was helpful in raising money...
...never bother to read the instructions, and argue, as did one Washington matron: "Why should I? I know how to run these things without reading about them." In New Orleans a housewife phoned angrily that her new freezer was defrosting; the repairman found it was unplugged. In Maple Shade, NJ. an infuriated motorist called the service station to tow his stalled car away; the mechanic found that the owner had forgotten to push the "drive" button on his new pushbutton transmission. And in Chicago repairmen for General Electric have been trying for years to convince a lady that her refrigerator...
...staging a small riot in a restaurant and getting the duke thrown in jail. Since no one in his family has had this kind of fun since the French Revolution, Armand happily jettisons liberty, equality and fraternity for connubiality. U.S. girls are a trifle bossy and European men a shade flighty, but, shrugs Bemelmans, ever the twain shall mate...
...claim by a Negro spokesman that the book is "racially offensive" shows a reading in which the racial sensitvity was sharper than the wits. For if there are some "passages derogatory to Negroes" (largely because the vernacular used has since changed in shade of meaning) the total drama shows the dignity and worth of "nigger Jim." Indeed, Huck's own moral growth is a function of his affection and respect for Jim. Other whites show badly in comparison as Jim teaches Huck not mere tolerance, but love. That the process is slow and painful and that it takes place...
...little later--with out time getting thin--he came within a shade of answering the question he had turned down. "What do you think Truman would have done?" he asked. "And Roosevelt...ah now...Roosevelt...