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...fatal shot hit the archduke in the jugular vein, the other struck the archduchess in the abdomen. From the archduke's throat a thin stream of blood spurted onto the face of an aide. "For God's sake, what has happened to you?" the archduchess cried out to her stricken husband. "Then she sank down from her seat," the aide recalled. "His Royal Highness said, 'Soferl, Soferl! Don't die. Live for my children.' " The aide grasped the slumping archduke by the collar and asked if he were in great pain. The dying archduke said...
...alternative disturbs me. In what vein would a member of the Harvard community profane my religious freedom? The Christmas season promotes as much of the sentiments of tolerance, compassion, and benevolence as it does worship for a certain people's saviour. Every occasion is improper for anti-Semitic gestures, but none could be more irreverent. Historically, Christmas has proved an uncomfortable season, both emotionally and physically, when tides of ill will against Jews climaxed in central and western Europe. Now, happily, participants in a secular world, we share the universal message of the Christian holy day. My intruder may even...
...immense talent but also immense gregariousness; he does not try to change our impressions of anything, but simply and sociably tells us some stories. Memories are recounted in the roughly chronological order in which they occur to him and seem somewhat hastily connected by such phrases as "In this vein, I have one last memory to expiate..." This structure does have its limits. Background information inaccessible to memory--for example, genealogical history-- receives short shrift...
...student editor. A male associate's "wardrobe of suits can run the gamut from blue to black." Women should dress as drably as possible and avoid makeup and perfume: "You don't want to encourage the senior partner to think of you in the same vein as the women he knew in Paris during...
...timid, ostensibly non-brutal culture, the need to channel human aggression has always proved somewhat of a problem. The macabre nature of Spain's bullfights revolts us, and even our own ancestral tradition of duelling gives us chills. Instead, we prefer something more in the vein of a game, where sportsmanship and fun--not victory and blood--are the central factors. The all-American solution to what we consider an un-American trait of violence has become football...