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...ended, and the prospect was for still more of the sectarian violence that has dominated Ulster for the last five years. Said Faulkner as he gave up his office: "It is the saddest day of my life and for the country I love. Today I fear we are the despair of our friends and the mockery of our enemies...
...allotted span. The best description the doctors could find for it was "smoldering leukemia," and between periods of hospitalization he had remissions during which he felt fine, wrote his columns and sometimes even played tennis. But he went through an ordeal of uncertainty, savagely ranging between hope and despair. Out of that ordeal he wrote his memorable book, Stay of Execution, an almost classic deathbed testament that is partly day-by-day diary of the progress and recession of a deadly disease, partly reflections and recollections of the good life he had had and was leaving. Inspired by it, people...
...there is one area in which admiration for Adams' work is universal: his command of tonal range on his prints. "The negative is the score," he says, "the print is the performance." Ad ams can do things with a print that are the despair of professional developers: his ability to bring out every nuance of tone within a shadow, gray overlapping black, so that each detail of form is both implicit and simultaneously present, is astounding. The difference of quality be tween an Adams print and one made by a studio from an Adams negative is just as evident...
Walter Washington, LL.D., mayor of the District of Columbia. A builder of urban life when many tear down, an optimist in afield where most despair...
Botched Story. Whole columns were deservedly devoted to such coups. But "The Lyons Den" more typically had the flair of a railway timetable. Lyons' prose strained toward the average, and his penchant for missing, mangling or omitting entirely the kicker of anecdotes was the despair of his sources. During the World War II point system of rationing managed by the Office of Price Administration, George S. Kaufman said that Lyons "missed so many points that he was under investigation by the OPA." One botched Lyons story: after Noel Coward had made some disparaging remarks about Brooklyn and earned...