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...midafternoon, the carpets had not been tacked, some of the seats were not bolted down, the stair railings were still being sanded. Six hours later, after some 800 hired limousines had converged on the area, braying their way through the clogged streets. New York Philharmonic Conductor Leonard Bernstein mounted the podium, bowed to the audience and Mrs. John F. Kennedy, and set the hall ablaze with sound. There would be better nights of music at Philharmonic Hall-the opening night's program was more an acoustical than an artistic success-but there would be no nights more glittering...
Gasping the acid, insufficient air, For this we labored through a rainy night Tired and frozen, up each cinder stair, Without the proper formula for prayer; But blind, not simply mothlike, toward no light...
...pink-walled barracks stood the Monument to the Dead-a bronze terrestrial globe guarded by four bigger-than-life statues of Legionnaires. Sentries in white kepis still stood guard before the gate bearing the inscription Légion Etrangère, but packing cases were piled on stair landings and in mess halls, and Legion tanks and halftracks were clanking down the road to Oran to embark for France...
WIDENER: Records, books, manuscripts, and such on "The Adams Family at Harvard" will decorate the main entrance hall, the reading room hall, and the stair landings. The material is drawn chiefly from the Harvard Archives. The Widener Memorial Room will contain a display of "extra-illustrated books," starting Monday...
...fifty-five, And this time last year I was fifty-four, And this time next year I shall be sixty-two. And I cannot say I should like (to speak for myself) To see my time over again-if you can call it time: Fidgeting uneasily under a draughty stair, Or counting sleepless nights in the crowded tube...