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Graceful and effective pronunciation is always a sticking-point in English, but the choruses and the soloists dealt with the problem well. The words were quite distinct, if I some times did feel spat upon. Several instances of unusual word-painting had delightful enunciation: "silver (seelver) and gold," "nostrils," and "blotches and blains" (the last by alto Betty Lou Austin...
Plastered Skirmishers. Yemen's roads and fields are littered with the remains of dead Egyptians left to rot unburied. "Let the dogs eat the Egyptian dogs," spat a tribesman. The few Egyptians taken prisoner seem dazed and dejected. Private Amer Hussein Bahid, 24, of Cairo, was due for discharge in January after three years' army service. Instead, his company was airlifted to San'a and rushed off to launch a counterattack at Beit Miran. Said he: "About 25 miles from San'a we were ambushed. My company never got a chance to fight...
...Munich? Like so many family fights, it was over a silly issue-a three-page article in the Saturday Evening Post. Time was when the Post was known for homey cover pictures and short stories in which boy and girl always managed to meet, spat, resolve their differences and legally wed within 2,500 words. Now the Post goes in for hurry-up, behind-the-scenes exposés-such as last week's "In Time of Crisis," a panting account of the Cuban confrontation by Charles Bartlett, Washington correspondent for the Chattanooga Times, and Stewart Alsop, the Post...
...Spat Upon. Long before the Civil War, Phenix City became famed as a vice town, populated mostly by crooked gamblers and diseased whores. Gunfire was all too common. In later years, slot machines lined the walls of barbershops and service stations, even sprouted on the sidewalks. Servicemen from nearby Fort Benning kept the brothels operating full tilt. Such was Phenix City's infamy that members of its high school football team were spat upon when they played out of town...
Three of the four episodes comprise a movie that a Parisian goes to see one afternoon after a spat with his wife. The first is a grisly little playlet borrowed from Stendhal's Italian Chronicles, about an aging Venetian duchess who gets even with her handsome, young, philandering lover by having him chased by a band of cutthroats. He finds momentary sanctuary in a church where a funeral is in progress. But when he discovers the funeral is for him (a grim whimsy of the duchess'), he runs out and is run through by the bully boys...