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...pool Europe's coal and steel. One of two traditional enemies was willing to share with the other the very source of power and strength over which they had fought so often. It might be but a mere pinprick in the barrier of distrust. Yet through that pinprick shone a slim ray that might yet light the way to unity in Europe...
...native land until he falls head-over-heels in love with a girl named Lulie, straight from the Midwestern heart of America. " 'Husband,' she said. 'Wife,' he said. The words made them bashful. They clung together against their bashfulness . . . The risen sun over the ocean shone in their faces." Novelist Dos Passos was better when he was angry...
...they have no heart-no heart at all") and even felt nature was dueling with her: "The spring this year seems to me hateful -cruel-cruel like pigeons are cruel-all the leaves burst into claws." When it finally came, her marriage proved dismally anticlimactic: "It was to have shone-apart from all else in my life. And it really was only part of the nightmare, after all. You never once held me in your arms and called me your wife. In fact, the whole affair was like my silly birthday. I had to keep on making you remember...
...first count, Koussy clearly led the field. The second point may be debated for years to come. Unlike most conductors, Koussy made hard work of reading scores; his conducting technique sometimes confused musicians; his beat was often erratic. Yet, in a less obvious facet of technique, Koussy shone like a perfect gem. His constant, tyrannical demand for tonal perfection made the Boston one of the world's three or four greatest orchestras; where poetry lay hidden in music, Koussy found...
...BRIGHT winter sun shone down on the sparkling blue waters of Hong Kong's incomparable harbor. Commuters on the tidy little ferries that link Victoria Island with the mainland saw spread before them on the waterfront most of the great commercial names of the Orient-Jardine, Matheson & Co., Butterfield & Swire, the East Asiatic Co. Dominating the closely packed warehouses and office buildings rose the massive square tower and the bronze lions of the Hong Kong & Shanghai Banking Corp...