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...other hand, both leaders are well aware that they will not be alive or in office many more years; a sense of urgency underlay even their most florid public exchanges. This awareness of historic work to be done pervaded the entire visit and, more important, was grasped by West Germany's people. Charles de Gaulle has long paid tribute to Franco-German friendship; he even personifies it. Last week he helped to make it a reality that will outlive Charles de Gaulle...
...annual U.S. Chamber of Commerce meeting last week, the President labored to be conciliatory and to prove himself no foe of business. But in one sentence, he firmly restated the thesis that underlay his intrusion into steel pricing...
...time expressing a specific feeling of its own; rather it would drift into a nostalgic sitting-round-the-fire sort of mood which could be poignant but little else. This sentimental cliche seemed to deaden the vivacious choruses from The Beggar's Opera, and seemed to some degree to underlay almost all the folksongs. Davison's arrangement did avoid it by its striking chords and elaborate voicing, and Fukunata's Barcarolle of Koshiki Isle escaped it through a swift melodic dive repeated throughout...
Marx & Butter. The kind of man Khrushchev is had been case-hardened in the crucible of what Communism is-and both underlay every play of last week's drama. Khrushchev learned his Bolshevism out of his dismal early life-born and bred in a mud-and-reed hut, boy shepherd, child laborer in the coal mines, whipped unforgettably with a knotted nagaika while caught fishing on a princely estate. He was semiliterate until his mid-208, when he was sent, along with other Red army civil war veterans, to Lenin's Rabfak (workers' school). He learned...
...despite her tone-deafness, delivers the familiar Falling in Love Again and a new song, Lola Lola ("lives for love"), with throaty seductiveness. But she is never called upon to display even a modest range of emotion, never conveys anything of the sense of mystery and veiled secret that underlay Marlene's tough tart...