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...through all the violence, contradiction and distortion of his denunciations, his personal credo rings clear: "Improve your standards; clean out the muck; cut out the cant!" And when he says, for once in simple seriousness, that "good seed is seldom sown in vain," musicians, the world over, can only wish him better soil and an even bigger sweep...
...Thou shalt not take thy husband's name in vain...
Last year the Republicans tried in vain to change the state primary laws. G.O.P. politicians figured that conventions would enable them to nominate better-balanced slates. Last week at Worcester, the Republicans tried an experiment. They held an unofficial nominating convention and picked a mixed slate which will get the party leaders' all-out support in the September primary for state offices. Its makeup: two Back Bay bluebloods, one Yankee businessman, two Jews, one Italian and one Irishwoman...
Shall mourn in vain the fact they were not here...
...period charm than truth-to-nature, it is partly because flowers are among the most difficult challenges a painter can pick. Flowers are delicate as eyelids, complex as blood vessels, vital as fire, and their colors make paint look muddy by comparison. Yet artists-an ambitious and often a vain lot-keep trying each summer to paint them...