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Montini and his helpers concentrated on Milan's 600,000 office, shop and factory workers. He whirled through the Rinascente department store, the stock exchange, three banks. To Sputnik-struck hearers, he praised Russia's technical success, then won a thunder of applause with a blow for the Lord ("Beyond scientific reality there is a divine reality"). Everywhere Montini pleaded: "Come to our mission and hear us.' What are we talking about? The usual things? Yes, but do you really know them? The same old story? Yes, but better say the eternal story. Useless matters? No, useful...
...warms and, from the softening snowfields, the avalanches fall and the rocky gorges thunder with their slips...
...squads out into the street to whip up indignation over the Dutch refusal to hand over Dutch New Guinea. (Says Sukarno: "I don't get it. The Dutch have given us the main building, but they still cling to the garage.") Organized bands of hooligans smeared blood-and-thunder signs on cars and the walls of Dutch-owned shops and Australian homes from one end of Djakarta to the other...
Thus Heliodorus opens his swashbuckling Ethiopica, one of the ancestors of the historical novel. Even when it first appeared−about A.D.250−it was a full-fledged historical, for Heliodorus was writing about a period 750 years before his own time. This early blood-and-thunder melodrama comes magnificently alive in this new translation by Columbia University's Jay Professor of Greek, Moses Hadas...
...harsh Welsh backward blacknesses." To his "wide-open-beaked" poetry readings all over the U.S.. Dylan gave "the concentrated artillery of his flesh and blood, and, above all, his breath. I used to come in late and hear, through the mikes, the breath-straining panting . . . booming blue thunder into the teenagers' delighted bras and briefs. And I thought, Jesus, why doesn't he pipe down...