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...speak, involving malaise and piety, desolation and transfiguration, the spectral and the immaculate, almost always ending in the reassertion of the nobility of the human spirit and the inextinguishable beauty of nature. Mahler felt everything and felt in with an intensity forever incomprehensible to people like ourselves who stalk through a stupefyingly drab and insensate life. He wrote, after conducting the Scherzo of his Fifth Symphony, a wonderful movement which always makes me think of Falstaff, waldhorn in hand, dancing and rioting, stealing Apollo blind...
...Disorders and fears of new and frightening dimensions stalk the corridors of many of our schools," declared the High School Principals Association of New York City in a recent urgent appeal to Mayor Lindsay and the board of education for help in controlling student unrest. Help is needed; the troubles that have been plaguing college campuses for the past few years are now beginning to infect high schools. Much of the strife seems to be a spontaneous eruption of purely racial antagonism, pitting black students against white students and white teachers, but more and more of it is being deliberately...
...among men, whom he called "the least interesting of all animals." A devoted herpetologist, he discovered four new species of snakes and hunted down 22 rare species of mammals for the world's zoos and museums. Even after his legs were amputated because of illness, he continued to stalk the bush-in a wheelchair...
...never been a one-man organization. Nonetheless, just as the Macy's customer has become the prototype of the shopper, Straus has become the archetype of the shrewd retailer. Straus zeroed in on what he called his "bull's-eye" (middle-income) clientele, liked to stalk around the floors to check on the sales people and inspect the merchandising for taste...
That is how much of the world beyond its borders feels about the U.S. today. All too widely, the country is regarded as a blood-drenched, continent-wide shooting range where toddlers blast off with real rifles, housewives pack pearl-handled revolvers, and political assassins stalk their victims at will...