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Occasionally a few brave souls, among them, this writer, try for a local show. Then, if there is something really tweedy on, the little women want to swarm to the Brattle, where the debutantes rub elbows with the intellectuals, and respectability survives...
Tibet is cold, filled with silence and bones, haunted by demons; yet Tibetans are a strangely happy people. In the brief two months of summer, they swarm from their dirty, smoke-filled houses, set up white tents with blue trimmings on the river meadows, sing, drink milk beer and tell stories. They splash together in the streams for their first baths of the year. Nearly every visitor to penetrate the forbidden land has been enchanted by its people. They do few things terribly well, but everything with zest. Explorer Fosco Maraini believes they have found the secret of liberty, which...
...with the Old. Despite its frenzied week, the AmEx (the New York Curb Exchange until 1953) has mellowed since its raucous youth. From its founding, around 1850, until 1921, the exchange operated outdoors, as a noisy swarm of brokers and traders crowded Wall, Broad and Hanover Streets from 8 a.m. to sunset, in fair weather and foul. Because trading was done by flashing secret hand signals, whistling and shouting, the marks of a star broker were leathery lungs, a weatherproof body, and a canny ability to decode competitors' signals...
...Threw, jointly with the 20-member senate, a turnabout dinner in the Gold Room of Juneau's Baranof Hotel for the swarm of lobbyists who had been wining and dining the lawmakers...
...spiral of wire attached to an oscillator. He sticks the model, faintly perfumed with lavender, through a hole in a glass-walled hive and lets the oscillator wiggle it. The bees crowd around and observe. As soon as they get the message, they swarm out and unerringly fly to the lavender-flavored sugar water that has been placed to reward them...