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Only by uniting the U.S. and Europe's democracies in a federal union with common citizenship, Roberts thinks, can the U.S. draw the poison from this donor-beggar relationship. Roberts appealed to a higher logic than dollars & cents: "Free men are the best assets we have outside the U.S.; men who think and act like...
...small basket of rice and a bowl of soup, and the case is one in which the getting of them will preserve life and the want of them will be death. [Yet] if they are offered with insulting voice, even a tramp will not receive them . . . even a beggar will not stoop to take them." Still other Chinese, not quite sure what the U.S. might eventually ladle out, hoped for more than drops. Editorialized Shanghai's China Press last week: "China's needs remain twofold: 1) aid in the military field ... 2) aid in the economic field...
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...vehicle, the most famous ballad opera after "The Beggar's Opera," was first given in Covent Garden in 1762--so successfully that the playgoers of the time deserted Drury Lane, and David Garrick barely escaped bankruptcy...
Shocking. Maria Montessori has never been anything else. As a girl, she shocked Roman society by going about the streets unchaperoned. She was a mathematical prodigy and wanted to be an engineer. But on the day she registered at the University of Rome, she came across a tattered beggar carrying a sickly child. Though she could never stand the sight of blood, Maria decided then & there to become a doctor. She was the first woman ever to receive an M.D. from the University of Rome...