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...will characterize our Government's conduct in the four stormy years that lie ahead. Humbly I ask his help in this undertaking-but aware that on earth his will is worked by man, I ask for your help and your prayers, as I embark on this new and solemn journey...
...cocktail-hour philosophizing goes, but its polemical exposition in the first chapter damps the chemical process that produces satire. Burgess writes comically enough about TV-induced catatonia. the god-awfulness of roast mutton, and the entanglements of adultery, but the reader feels compelled to check each incident with the solemn preamble-is such and such really putrid or merely pathetic, is it cause or merely effect? Despite such shortcomings, the author's prose is graceful and precise, his wit is sharp, and he can complicate a comic situation to the point of inspired silliness...
...bare stage beneath a jagged ice floe, a chorus of penguins sang a solemn farewell to the explorer, who had just lurched off into the Antarctic night. The audience was not sure what it was watching, but the composer had no doubts. Said Winfried Zillig: "It's pure opera...
Hangover in the Army. The dude reader first notes a certain irony in the circumstance that the solemn and formidable apparatus of U.S. scholarship has been turned loose on a man who was a great liar in the Mark Twain style and was always surprised if some pedant tried to ride herd on his maverick facts. Stratfordians have unearthed a great many variants- on the spelling of Shakespeare's name; Buffalo Bill's biographer rustles up 14: Coady, Cody, McCoady, etc., and Buffalo Bill probably could not have cared less. He might have resented the fact that Author...
...Tall and solemn, De Gaulle marched on until he reached the mass of apathetic Moslems, who might boycott De Gaulle's projected referendum or be coerced into voting no. His presence set them wild with delight. Moslem men roared "Vive De Gaulle!" Moslem women tried to kiss his hand. A small Moslem boy gave De Gaulle everything he had-his sodden luncheon sandwich. For nearly a quarter of an hour, De Gaulle was literally lost in a sea of grinning, cheering faces. To make sure no harm could come to him, the Moslems formed a compact mass and escorted...