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...French cathedrals and New England general stores, at the bottom of the Grand Canyon and at the top of the Empire State Building, the U.S. amateur photographer pursues his hobby. His camera's combined clicks (he is taking nearly 2 billion pictures this year) would drown the loudest thunder, and the combined light from his flashbulbs (he is using 500 million) would make a major planet pale. The sun to him is chiefly a source of light that often calls for a yellow filter, and the moon merely an object which it is hard to photograph without a tripod...
After a decade of clean calm government, Cambridge now stirs restlessly and may soon welcome back the color and thunder of plurality election along with its usual bedfellows: controlled primaries and greedy machines. Board with the lackluster of businesslike management, and desiring "more American, majority control" voters may kill proportional representation at the citywide election next Tuesday. As one shrewd local observer notes...
...typological stand, Miller says, "He belonged to that rare and furtive brotherhood who, here and there throughout the centuries, have taken the New Testament to mean not a continuation but a repudiation of the Old." Because Williams' powerful opponents had modeled the Massachusetts Bay Colony after the fire and thunder kingdoms of the Old Testament, and considered it a social crime to differ with the Massachusetts' Congregational dogma, the implications of Williams' opinions were treasonous and heretical. According to him, the kingdoms of Saul and David were nothing but anachronisms...
...French expression for love at first sight is un coup de foudre-a crash of thunder. When Jacques Rainier meets Ann Garantier at a carnival in Nice, the crash is shattering. Rainier is a one-armed French intellectual with a two-fisted attitude toward love and war. For 15 years-in Spain, the French air force, the R.A.F., the Maquis-he has been fighting "to defend a civilization which, from the Virgin Mary, Dante, Petrarch and the Troubadors...to the humblest of our movies...has always celebrated the cult of love." Ann is a Hollywood movie star who seems frigid...
...Feeling. While Hughes and Johnson talked on and on-for 55 minutes minutes-the FBI agents traced the call to a phone booth in the mezzanine of Baltimore's Town Theater, where Mickey Spillane's blood and thunder I, the Jury was playing. The FBI rounded up a small task force of its agents, including Agent John Brady Murphy, 35, who had already started home to his wife and three children when he got orders to come back to his office. At the theater, four agents, led by Murphy, cautiously made their way up the stairs...