Word: sternly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Warsaw as a child of four, Landowska expressed herself on the piano while other children were learning to talk. Her first teacher, recognizing her precocious virtuosity, let her play whatever music pleased her. But "a stern, dry man" took his place, and "my delightful roamings through the gavottes and bourrées of Bach were at an end." She was very unhappy. "I dream only one thing, when I am grown to play only Bach, Haydn and Mozart." She sealed this vow in an envelope, to be opened "when I am a big girl. But I opened it the next...
...salvage from the Miru, and the island's natives would get the other half. That, he said, was why everyone was going to the beach; wreckage was sure to drift in soon. Arrow discreetly pointed toward a white-hulled yacht with a New Zealand flag flying from the stern, and suggested that the Miru hadn't broken up yet. Somewhat downcast, the native called his fellows back. Later the island meterologist informed Davis that several ships, some larger than the Miru had been lost in the hurricane--the worst in 30 years. Hungry, but ignorant of the Rapa language, Arrow...
...honor of the day, which was also his 75th birthday, the stern old soldier thawed a little and permitted his inflation-harried countrymen, many of whom had voted for him as an economic savior, to celebrate his return in a national fiesta. From suburbs and provinces they poured into the huge square outside La Moneda, the presidential palace, to watch open-air performances by some 1,200 actors, dancers and musicians on seven different stages. Noisily, they cheered the general in his sky-blue uniform, the parading troops, the flat-hatted cowboy who galloped up to the general and handed...
...Peace is the dearest treasure in the sight of free men. I have learned this the stern way-from the sight of war." So, too, had he learned of evil: "The organized evil challenging free men in their quest of peace." The great battle against Communism is above all a moral encounter, and freedom needs to gird itself with unity of all classes for the common good, with "the faith teaching us all that we are children of God," with hope "in the greatness and genius of America...
...from Annapolis to the University of Michigan. Each of the students has a folder in the Pontiac office, filled with clips and letters ("my heartwarming mementos"). Once in a great while, when a student seems to be taking things too easy at school, Higgins summons him home for a stern lecture ("You've got to scratch. You're not riding a gravy train"). But in all the years of his hobby, he has never had a failure. "About the only one who comes close to it," George Higgins likes to say, "is a girl who up and gets...