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...years John Gill and Alton got along, but beneath the tranquil surface, trouble threatened. Like many another small town in southern Illinois, Alton ignores a state law, on the books since the 1880s, and segregates its Negro children in public schools below high-school level...
...fraud?' That is a question which is going to mean more and more to you year by year. At first, it seems agonizing; after that, it becomes familiar and habitual. Much later, it becomes . . . almost hopeful . . . You have to keep on tranquil good terms with this question, not forget it, not let it get into the unconscious . . . The more experience you have with people you're trying to teach, the more evident it will be that it's impossible to teach them . . . The best things that any elderly teacher can ever claim to have said...
...Look Homeward, Angel's schoolmam Margaret Leonard, Thomas Wolfe wrote: "It was the most tranquil and the most passionate face he had ever seen . . . If he noticed her emaciation at all now, it was only with a sense of her purification . . . One by one the merciless years reaped down his gods and captains. What had lived up to hope? . . . Enduring, a victorious reality amid his shadow-haunted heart, she remained, who first had touched his blinded eyes with light, who nested his hooded houseless soul...
Speaking of his new project, Wanderer Chagall says: "It will take some time before my soul will be entirely tranquil." Said daughter Ida, who has shared most of his travels with him: "It will never be entirely tranquil...
...Queen. She sat by a window in the dusk, leaning out again & again to say "Thank you. Thank you from my heart." Many of the singing boys or their sons were to die in the two great wars to come; but that night at Windsor all seemed tranquil ahead for Britain and the Empire and the world. The Eton boys were astonished and delighted when an Indian servant handed the Queen a whisky & soda, which she drank, along with all Britain, on Mafeking night...