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...mean that the book was distorted to fit the demands of the survivors. Ziegler's tone is generally admiring but not adulatory, as when he compares Mountbatten with Douglas MacArthur, his fellow Supreme Commander in the Pacific during World War II. The two Supremos were equally and supremely vain, is Ziegler's assessment, but Mountbatten lacked MacArthur's cold arrogance and "was endearingly able to laugh at himself." Like other congenital optimists, Mountbatten seems to have had a vividly accurate memory for events as they should have happened, but, says Ziegler, "though the truth in his hands often suffered...
...Barbara Davis) Hyman, 38, depicts the legendary actress as an emotionally erratic, hard-drinking egomaniac who caters to her public at the expense of her family. Born to Davis during her third marriage (out of four), to Artist William Grant Sherry, Hyman reports that her mother tried in vain to see a copy of the manuscript prior to publication and fought the project furiously in phone calls and letters, saying, "How dare you do this to me? I'm a very famous woman." The first-time author, who received a hefty $100,000 advance for the book, maintains that...
...group of fans behind the Yankee bullpen tried in vain for five innings to start a wave, but the section to the right refused to cooperate. Finally, one wave managed to ripple over to the center-field camera. The original section went wild...
Although Yale trails the Crimson now, its past efforts may not be in vain...
...life, exhorted his countrymen, "Oh, that at long last you had the courage for once to yield yourselves to your impressions . . . to let yourselves be elevated, yes, to let yourselves be taught and inspired and encouraged for something great; only do not always think that everything is vain if it is not some abstract thought or idea!" The triumph of Bach was that he did just that. His imposing musical structures touch the heart directly; Bach was, after all, a musician, not a philosopher or theologian. The sad part is that, even now, so many refuse to believe...