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...stark glimpse of a Burmese criminal who, as he walks to the gallows, steps aside to avoid a puddle. This instinctive human reaction overwhelms Orwell with "the mystery, the unspeakable wrongness, of cutting a life short when it is in full tide." How the Poor Die is a severely underwritten memoir of Orwell's stay (as a pneumonia patient) in a Paris ward in the '20s, which leads him to the wry conclusion that "it's better to die violently...
...theater, gathered together one of Europe's finest music libraries. On the count's payroll are the topnotch Siena quintet (now known as the Quintette Chigiana), the choirmaster of Siena's newly organized town choir, the visiting artists who perform each winter in the Chigi-underwritten concert season. Each fall, moreover, the count backs Siena's big' week-long festival of Italian music...
Twenty Million Dollars. CHESF is capitalized at $20 million. Half of its initial stock issue was underwritten by the federal government, which in turn was allowed to sell 49% of its shares to private investors; the other half was underwritten jointly by four northeastern states, municipalities, private corporations and individuals. For added capital, CHESF is counting on additional government money and is looking to Washington for a $15 million World Bank loan...
Meanwhile, the Band is going ahead with plans for a South American tour this summer. The State Department has stamped official approval on the project, but the University is withholding a final nod until the six-week trip has been completely underwritten by a suitable "angel...
...there were 200 waterside Chautauquas in 31 states.But Chautauqua really became big business when it hit the road in tents. During the peak year of 1924, Chautauqua visited 12,000 U.S. towns and villages whose leading businessmen had underwritten, willingly or grudgingly, all the expenses (the management got all the profits under the "standard" contract). That year, 30 million people crowded into the big brown tents and it looked as if Chautauqua were going on forever. The following year it went into a slump from which it has never fully recovered...