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...Steel industry. For this he was blasted on the floor of Congress for being in the pay of the unions. Dunlop has a hard time explaining what it's like to be under the hostile glow of the public spotlight. "Unless you've had a blowtorch put down your throat," he says, "you don't know how it feels. Their whole national propaganda machine is focused on you. You're the s.o.b...
Malraux and many like-minded intellectuals, writes Onimus, try to substitute art for God. "Malraux finds in art the justification for existence . . . He cannot dwell in nothingness; the absurdity of it catches him by the throat . . . He seized upon art when it appeared to offer an escape toward heaven . . . For Malraux, [art] succeeds the gods; it takes over from a faltering religion . . . Modern man . . . stripped of faith and hope, surrounds himself with [masterpieces], those ghosts who have successfully triumphed over time . . . For modern man, as Malraux sees him, museums are no longer collections, they are sanctuaries where, in a world...
...thoughts are subjected to no rules . . . I can fly backwards and forwards in time and space." With which brave words Ireland's exiled poetaster and throat specialist. Dr. Oliver St. John Gogarty, takes off on the umpteenth lap of his favorite circuit-Dublin in the first decades of the century...
There was nothing tired about his playing. Instead of the brassy blare that comes from ordinary trumpets, Chefs horn usually sounded something like a clarinet with a frog in its throat-intimate, soft, agile. Starting at fast tempo, he doubled it to play his rapid-fire arabesques, never muffed a note right down to the pointedly abrupt ending...
...After 90 minutes of it, as he was pushing his way through the crowd, a sailor who had been one of his most persistent hecklers offered him a box of throat lozenges. " 'Ere, guv'nor," he said. " 'Ave one. I bet yer need it after that." "Thanks, chum," replied the Rev. Donald Soper, president of the Methodist Church in Britain...