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...vain Gualtierotti tried to discover who had sent the boots. He was still puzzling three months later when he was promoted to captain and transferred to another regiment in Brescia, 275 miles away, There, for the first time, he pulled on his shiny new boots and marched off to report to his commanding officer. The interview was brief. Gualtierotti sprang to attention, clicked his heels, and was blown to bits...
...North. Last week, after thumbing through 30 Northern newspapers, McGill angrily wrote: "Let anything suggestive of Ku Klux Klan violence happen in Georgia or the South nd the Northern and Eastern papers are certain to give it front-page play and bitter editorial condemnation. But we have searched in vain for comment on ... passage of the antimask bill, which . . . signals the death and burial of the Klan nd its code in Georgia ... It is much easier to criticize than to praise...
...arms." By 1569, Miguel de Cervantes, 22-year-old son of a footloose, impoverished doctor, had already taken a short stroll down the road of Spanish letters with a sheaf of verses under his arm. Although he managed to get a few of them published, he looked in vain for wealth and glory, finally came to a decision: he would follow both roads and double his chances...
...said, was not even considering making any such request. He still clung to the hope, he added, that the whole situation could be resolved by negotiation with the Red Chinese. Was this the Administration's only answer? Last week, after five weeks of vain waiting for the Chinese to agree to a cease-fire in Korea, the U.S. made a behind-the-scenes appeal to the U.N. General Assembly: declare China an aggressor. More tentatively, it suggested that the U.N. should consider imposing economic and political sanctions against the Chinese Reds. There was little disposition among the European...
...generation; it definitely indicates, even though it does not definitively prove, that the part can be acted. Tall, commanding Louis Calhern (Jacobowsky and the Colonel, The Magnificent Yankee) conveys what the faithful Kent saw in Lear's countenance-authority.* Calhern also has a perfect sense of the vain, imperious whitebeard, the appalled father, the outraged king. And Calhern's Lear is often touching as well as grand. Where he falls short is with the Lear who is tormented to madness, who is humanized and transformed by suffering. Where he falls down is in his misreading...