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Thousands of years of happy reign be thine; Rule on, my lord, till what are pebbles now, By age united to mighty rocks shall grow, Whose venerable sides the moss doth line...
...belongs to the same family. Bananas may grease the ways for a Victory ship launching, but abacá makes the rope for the world's navies. There has been little abacá since Manila fell, and there will be little if any more till Manila is retaken...
...Metropolitan opera is back in Boston till the end of the week, and provoking, besides enthusiasm for its generally high standards, the usual amount of speculation on the future of opera as a whole. During the New York season, opera comes in for a pretty steady critical barrage, most of it written by critics more interested in good theatre than good music, and certainly, from the point of view of acting, staging, and occasionally the plots themselves, opera can be laughably ineffective as theatre...
...agency, cabled a last, bitter account of a country lost for want of a few ships, a few hundred planes, a few thousand well-armed troops. A Dutch dispatcher, radiophoning commercial messages (in English) to RCA. spoke the last word from Java: "We are shutting down now. Good-by till better times. Long live the Queen...
...Lord Macaulay was intoning: "It may be that the public mind of India may expand under our system till it has outgrown that system; that by good government we may educate our subjects into a capacity for better government. . . . Whether such a day will ever come I know not. But never will I attempt to avert or retard it. Whenever it comes, it will be the proudest day in English history." It was such men who nurtured India's own liberal ideals and ambitions by inviting Indians into Britain's universities...