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...workaholic students emerged in the spring of my senior year looking like Charlton Heston after he comes down from the mountain with the Ten Commandments--burned out and still smoking, clutching a Hoopes Prize instead of stone tablets. Still today (the future), these people have the dynamism and social warmth of a strep throat culture...
...give him any Old Guy awards. But by then he was the Scarlet Pimpernel of those illusive qualities, grace and charm. He made his living mysteriously--producing and arranging--but when he appeared, in drawing-room comedy revivals, his welcomes were thunderous. He pretended astonishment but basked in the warmth of these tributes to his essential quality: old-fashioned, unspoken gallantry...
...perhaps be found by future generations as a trifle eccentric, but the mere fact of it--the prodigal, pure human kindness of it--must be seen as a beautiful star in that firmament which shines upon me at this moment, dazzling me a little but filling me with warmth of the extraordinary elation, the euphoria that happens to so many of us at the first breath of the majestic glow of a new tomorrow...
...production staff hauled up whatever seating material they could find in the HRDCs large props room-reclining chairs, sofas, pillow cushions. Artistically, the decision complimented the show nicely. Set in a cozy neighborhood bar, Picasso at the Lapin Agile invites the audience to share off stage the comfort and warmth that its characters find on stage. But from a larger perspective, the decision to make the audience as comfortable as possible was a disturbing one. Essentially, the audience of Picasso at the Lapin Agile was made to feel as though they were watching a play in the comfort of their...
Crossing the border took six days. The Chinese had little water and less food. At night, when the temperature dropped below freezing, they could do nothing but hold each other for warmth. Their Mexican guides would not allow them to light fires, and Chen still had only the two thin shirts and one pair of trousers he had been wearing since he left Fujian. On the sixth night they reached a chainlink fence. The Mexicans sliced it open, and Chen pushed his way through. After 10,500 miles and 135 days, he had finally made...