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Dawn's Early Blight. In Naples, a watchmaker applied for a patent on an alarm clock for stubborn sleepers which, if not turned off after the first normal rings, starts an electronic tape featuring the continuous honking of a car horn, the prolonged barking of a dog, several pistol shots followed by a cannon's boom...
...said "non é grave" when he saw it was only 99°. That night he drank a glass of red wine and called for a recording of Beethoven's First Symphony. At 7:30 the next morning, a second stroke left him unconscious. But it took his stubborn body nearly 20 hours...
...however uneven and overlong, A Touch of the Poet has impact in a theater whose playwrights generally stand far closer to Con Melody than to O'Neill, in gaudily yet transparently trying to pass for what they are not. O'Neill's stubborn force and burdened, honest feeling help light the way of American drama even when he himself is losing it. And the production, as directed by Harold Clurman, sheds helpful light as well. Eric Portman's Con is often unintelligible, but it conveys a dynamic power of acting, a demonic possession of the role...
...battle. In Flanders Haig bore out the assessment of British Military Historian General J.F.C. Fuller, himself a Flanders veteran: "He lived and worked like a clock; every day he did the same kind of thing at the same moment; his routine never varied. In character he was stubborn and intolerant, in speech inarticulate, in argument dumb...
Saltonstall explained Republican foreign policy as "a working out of the principles of resisting armed aggression, and keeping our word to friendly nations." On Taiwan, he explained, the Administration must cope with "Chiang's stubborn determination" to return to the mainland and the fact that "we have already recognized one government of China, and cannot recognize another...