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...making more noise. Leaning slightly to one side or the other-the staff sits just a touch to the rear of the Queen-and dispensing cigarette ashes as if she were favoring the carpet, she shared her various comments ("Perfectly DREADFUL, my dear, don't you think?" "Perfectly GLORIOUS! my dear, don't you think?") with the room at large and even, some thought, with the outlying suburbs of Paris...
Saints Go Marching In. Grenadine gypsies taught him the primary skills of flamenco. Arabian Bedouins took him into their camps, listened to On Top of Old Smoky in a semitrance beneath the desert stars, and fed him sheep's eyeballs in glorious reward. He swallowed hard and fast...
...hope that no one will misinterpret my message, however, as suggesting that historical and statistical standards should be accepted as either the measure of the ideal or the attainable. There are glorious records of a few to show what should be attainable by the many. In terms of ideals regarding the obligations of a person to his country, his fellows and his own self-respect, the record contains many sources of regret and a few of shame...
...University sleeps; it has not yet acknowledged the glorious purposes which may still be served by its magical contraption on Brattle Street. The suggestion that Gaethe's Faust be performed annually at the Loeb Drama Center has been advanced before, by no less an alumnus than Lucien Price, but the Loeb has evidently treated it as mere frivolity. Fading recollections of that supremely serious monument of art may have inclined them to believe that the difficulties of production are too great, and the translations too stilted, for performance at their theatre. They should read it again, in Philip Wayne...
...released from their kennel-like pen. They slink up to their empty gruel bowls like wan, spiritless animals. For a long instant, a pang of pathos hangs upon the air. Then the game little troupers raise their obviously steak-fed voices and wham a sappy-happy song, Food, Glorious Food, right up into the dingy rafters...