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...clustered islets of Murano, a short gondola ride from Venice, master glassblowers have huffed and puffed since the 13th century, producing some of the world's finest glass. For centuries. Murano glassmakers isolated themselves from alien ideas, but lately the masters have been experimenting with a new form-a collaboration between glassblowers and great modern painters...
...rarely tempted to bead any series of his opinions or decisions on a string of generalization. In a speech last year, he summed up his deep-grained pragmatic approach. Said Speaker Martin: "We [Republicans] are not reformers, not do-gooders, not theorists, not the advocates of any alien philosophies or political dipsy-doo. We are just practical Americans, trying to do a practical job to reach practical goals. We do not belong to that school of political thought which has for so many years pursued the fallacious proposition that if a little bit is good for us-ten times...
Flanders is bloody ground, and its history a story of violence: for centuries the alien peoples of Europe have swarmed over her rich, open plain, to pillage, plunder and fight battles: Caesar's legions from the south; Viking raiders from the north, who left their word for landing-stage (bryggja) behind in the name of the Flemish city of Bruges; from the east fierce Germanic tribesmen, whose rough gutturals are reflected in the language of Flanders; from close at hand the troops of Louis XI, Napoleon, Wellington...
...week, French and Vietnamese truck convoys were rolling down alien roads toward the coast. The French were withdrawing from their blockhouses and redeploying, and the Communists were moving...
...only two characteristic of religion plainly alien to education at a non-denominational University are compulsion and sectarianism. Compulsion negates the right to be indifferent, a fundamental right in religious matters, and sectarianism bars those who have an interest from access to the fullest range of religious ideas...