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...summary can suggest Toynbee's range. But his study of renaissances, those recurring attempts of civilizations to recapture their lost youth, is a good example. Charlemagne tried to snatch back features of Hellenism, and Timur Lenk tried to raise the ghost of the Cairene 'Abbasid Caliphate, neither with success. In literature, 15th century Humanism tried to revive the writing of Latin verse only to see the "vulgar" and more virile Western literature sweep Europe. Toynbee includes the Crusades among the "renaissances" that failed, a deplorable attempt to reach "religious goals by military short cuts." In effect, Toynbee...
...moderately successful songwriters individually and admirers of each other's work. Both could write both words and music. A large part of their collaboration, they discovered after getting together, turned on a spontaneous veto-rule: one of them would suggest an idea for a lyric or hum a snatch of melody; if the other actively opposed it, out it went without argument. Some days, when working to a deadline, they might draft all but the last eight bars of a song, and each go home to dream up his own solution. After that, a song usually got about...
...only the Russians but the stacks of German corpses emerging like an obscene layer cake from the melting snows, January casualties on top, October casualties on the bottom. When the Russians begin hitting his sector of the front with heavy artillery fire, Graeber is only too happy to snatch his first furlough in two years...
...Wesley, in a series of episodic scenes, developing from a pious moppet learning to read Genesis to a black-robed Oxonian distributing bread to the poor. Wesley's adventures in the colony of Georgia, where he had a commission to instruct godless Indians, are ticked off in a snatch of dialogue, but his search for a divine revelation that would give him "the inward witness" which lies at the heart of Methodism gets serious and moving treatment...
...Mans, no matter how much speed a car has, it must also be able to slow down to a crawl for the 90° turns-and do it quickly. Last year Cunningham & Co. saw the British Jaguars snatch victory from them with new disk brakes that withstood the 24-hour pounding without too much "fading," i.e., loss of bite. This week the third racing car in the Cunningham hangar was being fitted with a radical new set of liquid-cooled brakes whose specifications are still secret. This car, a Cunningham-V-12 Ferrari, is entered in the 200-mile President...