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...right, amazingly lighted on a toehold and handhold. In twelve hours the climbers inched upward only 1,000 ft., camped at dark on a precarious ledge. Throats parched, they longed for the water they had left behind in order to travel light (total equipment: 18 lbs.), listened to a stream rippling inside the rock out of sight...
...East zone Communists have showered the choir with state prizes and given its directors a free musical hand. Every year 2,000 or so applicants stream into Leipzig for tryouts. Choir members still rehearse five hours a day, learn a new Bach cantata each week, give three public concerts every weekend. State-supported now, the school has at various times been so poor that it was kept going only by flying squads of choristers who wandered through the city singing for alms...
...Time," wrote contemplative Henry David Thoreau (1817-62), "is but the stream I go a-fishing in." Recluse Thoreau (Walden, 1854), who lived for 26 months in a spare, do-it-yourself hut (cost: $28.12) in the serene wilderness of Massachusetts' Walden Pond, might have locked his creaky door had he caught a glimpse of the U.S. last week. It was a remarkable sight. In the heat of this midsummer, the nation looked upon time not as a quiet stream but as a bubbling spring from which it might satisfy an endless thirst for motion...
...civic committee chairmanships like baubles on a charm bracelet. It was she, says her husband, who steered the Times into its long war on the great Los Angeles blight: smog. "Buff and I were driving downtown one day in 1946," says Chandler, "and Buff's eyes started to stream. She looked at me and she said, 'O.K., Norm, when are you really going to do something about this?' So we went to work...
...Blasphemies; a dismal Picture and Emblem of Hell. Satan seems to take a strange possession of it." But Bronson Alcott later observed: "There is a city in our world upon which the light of the sun of righteousness has risen. It is the same city from which every pure stream of thought and purpose and performance emanates. It is the city which is set on high. It cannot be hidden. It is Boston...