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...bricks will begin at the first floor level early next month. Sand-struck bricks, which are lighter in color than the surrounding buildings, will be used in this construction, as an attempt to match the color of the early colonial structures which formerly stood in the Yard. The new, shade is thought to be more like that of the older bricks...
...Admiral Collingwood who assisted Nelson at Trafalgar and succeeded him in the Mediterranean command later wrote home to his wife: "Tell me, how do the trees which I planted thrive? Is there shade under the oak tree for a comfortable summer seat? Do the poplars grow at the walk, and does the wall of the terrace stand firm...
...Elliott Richardson, who described himself as "a lovely boy," garnered the top honors of all for the evening by guessing on all but one and a quarter of his questions. 'Poon prexy Coles Phinizy (pronounced to rhyme with Einstein) made up for his colleague, however, getting only a shade more than one and a quarter right...
Labels were all mixed up. The New York Daily News went to Webster for a definition of "that shameful word, 'appeasement,' " found in Webster no shade of the shame of Munich. Since Hitler and Stalin's alliance in 1939 had set the style, there had been so many cases of ideologically strange bedfellows that the only strange thing left would be the discovery of two ideas that hadn't slept together...
Blackmur's rigorousness is hard to take straight. Like a literary Cotton Mather, he burdens the creative conscience with almost more than it should bear, forgets that creation is a shade more to the point than anything that can be said about it. But it is through such painful filters as his that excellence is passed uninfected from generation to generation...