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...mystery in their consuming urge for public service and their special sense of selfimportance. They are the ones who listened to and believed the Scripture lessons about helping each other and rejecting materialism. They learned the satisfaction of personal excellence and leading others. They are all now on the threshold of an adventure that not even they imagined back in Mitchell, Doland, Shirkieville, Everett, Rumford and Ida Grove...
...serious violations, however, a prudent man may chose to avoid confrontation without forfeiting his opportunities for redress. While it may be generally preferable to put the issue to the test so that there can be a resolution of the ambiguities involved, one cannot insist upon this as a threshold for disciplinary action if a case can be made on its merits that a violation has occurred...
...formed two years ago. For the first time in weeks, the sky over Tokyo was free of smog. When Mishima and his companions reached Ichigaya Hill in western Tokyo, the headquarters of Japan's Eastern Ground Self-Defense Forces, sunshine bathed the midday. Mishima had arrived on the threshold of his life's climactic act. It was the sort of act, Japanese Literary Critic Kenkichi Yamamoto wrote later, that "reached its apex in one pyrotechnic explosion beyond time and space-one flash in the darkness and nothing else...
...action, and there is virtually none, for this is a Chekhovian mood piece, takes place in a mental home. There are no acute aberrations. The place is no nuttier than the world, or life. Richardson and Gielgud are two men who stand on the crumbling threshold of old age, all passion spent, memories distant but present, vivid yet garbled. For them, every dawn is dusk, and every dusk is darkened with the knowledge of imminent death...
...order, typing his manuscripts and looking after his poor health. He responded with bursts of creative energy, notably Mourning Becomes Electra and Strange Interlude. "To say that Carlotta and I are in love is weak and inadequate," he told a friend. "I could beat my brains out on the threshold of any old temple of Aphrodite out of pure gratitude for the revelation...