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...audience several exhortations and some rather thick flattery: "The first is to be of good cheer and good conscience. Depressing, even frightening things are being said about the Administration. They are not true. This has been a company of honorable and able men, led by a President of singular courage and compassion in the face of a sometimes awful knowledge of the problems and the probabilities that confront...
...Soviet Union: "Peaceful coexistence among different ideologies is not [possible]." History may contradict Khrushchev on that and many of his other judgments. But it is not likely to overlook the earthy, peasant-born Ukrainian who rose to become a world statesman, nor to forget his singular achievement: bestowing a measure of normalcy on the Soviet Union after the bloody aberrations of Stalin's 30-year reign...
...Eliot called him "the singular poet with the delightful name." Cyril Tourneur's name is one of the few things known about the Elizabethan dramatist. In an era of prolific playwriting, he produced only two plays that have survived, The Atheist's Tragedy and The Revenger's Tragedy, and even the dates of his birth and death are blanks. He attained no great popularity among his contemporaries. The sole allusion to Tourneur in an old chronicle sums him up this...
...letters and, above all, by talking almost every day's events into a tape recorder. The result was some 1,750,000 words that will eventually be available to scholars at the L.B.J. library. Diary is a sampler, some 300,000 words in nearly 800 pages, constituting a singular account of an exacting and freakish assignment, that of being a First Lady in the second half of the 20th century...
...approbation injected a new note of self-confidence into his painting. His colors grew warmer and more radiant, his scale ever grander. He turned to sculpture; his most singular work, Broken Obelisk, today stands in Houston as a memorial to Martin Luther King Jr. Intuitive, romantic, passionate, he unabashedly was. "But more than anything else," said Critic Lawrence Alloway last week, "he showed how to do the most with the least...