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...postgraduate tour of Italy with his mother, he sprained an ankle and broke an arm. Lily was forced to bathe her incapacitated son, to her evident enjoyment. She wrote a relative: "He looks 1 splendid now I do him." Forster accepted such smothering care without open complaint. Indeed, he shared the feeling that he was an incompetent in worldly matters. During his 20s, he astonished a friend by stating his belief that telephone wires were hollow. Not even the publication of his first novel, Where Angels Fear to Tread (1905), could persuade some acquaintances that he had grown...
...talk; in fact, should one truthfully answer a reporter's question and acknowledge that his firm is going to agree to a merger tomorrow, he would be in trouble with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Public figures can evade too: "I think 'No comment' is a splendid expression," said Churchill after learning it on a trip to the U.S. "I am using it again and again...
...Grenada, election day 1984 dawned as a tropical idyl: clear skies and sunshine, with brief spells of rain to break the sultry Caribbean heat. The splendid morning weather helped make a large turnout seem as inevitable as the arrival of the winter cruise ships in St. George's, the capital. At churches, schools and even discotheques, 85% of the island's 48,000 voters lined up for their first free elections since 1976. The balloting was described by an observer from the Organization of American States as "flawless." So, from the point of view of the Reagan Administration...
...anything about it. Typical is the attitude of Deborah L. Rhode, a visiting professor at the Law School who also happens to belong to Yale's corporation. She teaches a course on sex discrimination, but she hasn't done anything to impede its practice at Yale, despite the splendid opportunity the strike and her position grant her. The pursuit of truth is not a license for the abandonment of social conscience. As Marx once wrote, "philosophers contemplate the world. The point, however, is to change...
Lost in the excitement was the splendid return of the Crimson's Ali-American diver Dan Waison from a year of Olympic training...