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French literature is a very glorious and splendid treasury, but really it is about 60 million Frenchmen, isn't it? The masters of modern literature are engaged in describing multitudinous man, and at once we see a violent shift of values taking place. In one sense the individual shrinks in this vast chousing and in another sense his assertion of his validity takes on a new urgency and seeks a new authority...
...offer themselves as candidates for public favor have motives of some sort. I candidly acknowledge that I have, and I will tell you what they are: I love fame; I love public reputation; I love to live in the eyes of the country; and it is a glorious thing for a man to do who has had my difficulties to contend against...
...peace, glorious sons of our mighty country," said the voice. "Glory to Stalin's falcons, glory to our aviation, mightiest in the world. Glory to the creator of Soviet aviation, Stalin...
...still tied, 2-2. In the first half of the 19th, the Red Sox scored two runs. But the White Sox came storming back with three and won the game, 5-4. It had taken the teams a record 36 innings to settle two successive games.* After that glorious comeback, the limp Chicago fans expected their heroes to sweep the fourth game for an even break. The White Sox led, 2-1, going into the ninth, but lost, 3-2. The buster-upper: Clyde Vollmer. It was the sixth time in seven games that he had knocked in the winning...
...long march," opened at the Peking People's Art Theater. At a rally in Peking, spotlights lit up giant portraits of the Red pantheon, including Mao Tse-tung, Liu Shao-chi, Chou Enlai, Chu Teh, Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin. Said Liu: "Our party is the greatest, most glorious and most consistently correct party in the history of China. As Comrade Mao has said, 'The victory we have so far achieved is only the first.' " Planes roared overhead and scattered leaflets on the crowd below. The message: "Resist American Imperialism...