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...entire work. Subordinates with less than Churchillian lust for living hard in dangerous times could never be sure that the Prime Minister would take their human weaknesses for granted. In April, 1944 he radioed to the British ambassador to Greece: "You speak of living on the lid of a volcano. Wherever else do you expect to live in times like these...
...close to 6,000,000 records before the year is over-and that's tops in Tin Pan Alley's books. One secret of their success is a tape recorder on which Paul dubs multiple guitar and vocal passages, layer-cake style. The result is a reverberating volcano of polyphony which Paul calls "The New Sound...
...miracle is repeated several times. Soon no Negro dares dive any more, and Ti-Coyo has a monopoly. Ti-Coyo remains singularly untroubled by moral scruples. With the money he makes, his family builds a new house with a tiled roof and Venetian blinds. Finally, when the great volcano of Mount Pelee erupts and leaves St. Pierre a cemetery of cinders,* Manidou saves Ti-Coyo and his family by guiding them to a safe shore. Love has repaid love...
...their splendor, many of the buildings and details that caught Kelemen's eye were in a crumbling state. Even in a few years' time, "the volcano of Paricutin in Mexico . . . floods in Guatemala, seismic catastrophes in El Salvador and Ecuador, civil strife in Colombia and an earthquake in Cuzco have all taken a tragic toll." Worst of all, according to Kelemen: civil authorities who are letting local masterpieces deteriorate through neglect-or are tearing them down to make way for widened streets and modern buildings...
...signs erected at Mihara volcano, Nishikigaura inlet and Kegon waterfall near Tokyo, favorite spots for Japanese suicides. Despite this earnest entreaty, some 500 Japanese, taught by Japanese tradition that self-destruction offers an honorable solution to all kinds of trouble, leaped into the lava, the ocean and the abyss beneath the waterfall...