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...disadvantage, withdraws in the face of any major French force. Result is that although the overweight French army has won some local successes-notably the stamping out of terrorism in the casbah of Algiers by General Jacques Massu's hardened paratroopers-most of its time is spent in vain pursuit of a will-o'-the-wisp opponent...
...Gazette howled in vain. The entire edition of T.S. 41-160,000 copies -was snapped up by discerning readers weeks ago. Everywhere Russian kids were reading it, their eyes glued to such feverish lines...
...terminal, beating up drivers and running off with another 30 buses. When the police did not interfere, they stormed other terminals with Molotov cocktails. Mexico City transport was in chaos. People jammed the old streetcars, riding atop the roofs, crowded into trucks at 1? per ride. In vain Mexico City's bus drivers appealed to the students to stop. Finally, the 13 transport unions took full-page ads saying what all knew: "These young delinquents have proclaimed themselves defenders of the people. They don't care about the 15,000 modest workers...
...young man, Vaughan Williams in vain sought his own musical language in London (at the Royal College of Music) and Berlin (under Composer Max Bruch), finally found it in the modal, autochthonous abundance of the English countryside's folk music. Together with his friend Gustav Hoist, he severed the bonds binding English music to Germany and France. He once wrote: "Have we not all about us forms of musical expression which we can take and purify and raise to the level of great art? For instance, the lilt of the chorus at a music-hall joining in a popular...
...when James Joyce's hero Stephen stood in the school study listening to the voices of boys at play. "That is God,'' said Stephen, "a shout in the street." Nabokov also seems to be asserting that all of creation is God, and that Humbert, listening in vain for the laughter of a child, knew it at the bitter...