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...best of this new album of his is, of course, the "Tristan" excerpt. It's that wonderful scene where Tristan, knowing he is going to die, invites Isolde to follow him into "dasdunkel nacht'ge Land, daraus die Mutter einst mich sandt," and Melchior renders it with the perfect shade of dusky "Weltschmerz...
...Delhi nothing except muted headlines indicated that India was approaching a rendezvous with history. Heat-drugged, half-nude Indians still slept in the shade on sun-baked pavements or sprawled dozing on the grassy lawns of Government buildings and homes of pukka sahibs. From miles away bright British flags could be seen snapping in the north wind above the copper dome of the viceregal palace, as gayly and unconcernedly as if the British Government were not facing the most serious threat to its power since the Mutiny...
...factory workers celebrated July 4 by turning out the largest volume of goods on any holiday in U.S. history. Thus TIME'S Index was 174.6 (estimated) in the July 4 week, unchanged from the preceding week and only a shade below the highest ever...
...students, getting the dope on equipment, organization, training. He jolted around with the Army's new tank destroyer corps at Camp Hood in Killeen, Texas, where they had to move a cemetery to get the site they wanted. In the California desert at Indio (very hot in the shade and no shade) he saw our new desert warfare battalions being whipped into shape, heard General Patton applying the lessons our side has learned in Libya. And he got the opposite picture (and also some welcome cool weather) high up among the snowy peaks near Fort Lewis in Washington, where...
First the realization came to the small towns, where people lived close together. Many of the little towns now had lost one of their boys; many of them had a service flag with a gold star hanging in a parlor window along one of their shade-dappled streets. To little, ink-smelling newspaper offices went a mother or a father, holding stiffly the telegram from Washington and the picture that had stood on the mantel...