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...free, united and supranational Europe, not attempted since the nation-state was born with all its banners flying, though it has been a dream of statesmen from Charlemagne to Churchill, of poets from Dante to Goethe. Militarily, the Western Europeans joined with the U.S. in interposing NATO's "sword and shield" against Communist military aggression from the East...
Double-Edged Sword...
...tranquille violin solo going sour, wrong notes spoiling a cello phrase, the horns (after hitting everything else) slurping the octave in their famous solo, an oboe flatting a chord, and most obtrusively, a trumpet missing its jarring D-flat (as if the Don were stabbed with a broken sword.) But these little disasters were exceptions, due probably to nerves...
With my great sword at my side, deep melancholy overwhelms...
...them is that, unlike Picasso, he has never really learned the tools of his trade. He handles the cape like a housewife flapping a bed sheet and uses the bright red muleta as if he were flagging down a train. Worst of all, he is so inept with the sword that about the only way he can be sure of killing the bull is to shoot it. He had to stab one bull 16 times this month before it would die, and twice within the past two weeks he has heard the rare warning of a bugle signaling that...