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Paris skies may still be grey, but there is sunlight in its stones. As if ready to abandon his Gallic faith in wine, one slightly awed clochard said, "And to think that water can do all this...
...beat of a pneumatic drill. The strident reds, blues, and yellows blare with neon. And the stray words that seem squiggled from a toothpaste tube onto his paintings are like the hip, harsh expletives that slum kids spew into the summer air. Davis had violence without anger, gaiety without abandon, and his paintings swing and jump with such durable joy that it is as if he had dipped his brush in some eternal fountain of youth...
...Murayama's hints, suggestions and commands were rarely followed, but that only increased their volume-and the irritation of Asahi's editors. When members of a Japanese Antarctic expedition radioed home that an advance party was in trouble and might have to abandon their dogs, Mrs. Murayama, who is an ardent dog lover, ordered the paper to contact the expedition. Tell them to rescue the dogs, she said, and, if necessary, to abandon the Japanese. Asahi's editors refused. They also refused when she demanded a Page One story on her experience at an art show attended...
...option to operate public schools or not. But, the U.S. court added, it was unmistakably clear that Prince Edward County had exercised its option solely to prevent white and Negro children from attending classes together. "Whatever nonracial grounds might support a State's allowing a county to abandon public schools, the object must be a constitutional one, and grounds of race and opposition to desegregation do not qualify as constitutional," wrote Black. Since "relief needs to be quick and effective," the Justices declared that federal district courts had the power to compel county supervisors to raise taxes...
...kill others no worse than themselves. Cornwell said recently: "I chose spying as a subject for reasons of polemic. Western democracy seems to have one unifying force: the idea that individuals are more valuable than philosophies. My intention was to write about a group of people who consciously abandon the Western principle in order to defend...