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...letters bubble with energetic, dogmatic advice, orders and maxims, particularly when the young scions are studying on the Continent: "All the French women are cheats"; "It is better to go without . . . civilities than to pay too dear for them"; "Dancing gives men a good air and fencing should be learnt . . . Medals and antiquities, painting and sculpture, I don't look upon to be the most useful knowledge to anybody." As an example to the youths, Sarah cited the case of a Frenchman of "about three score," then in England, "who has learned in [only] a year's time...
...worship and a new synagogue designed by Architect Rau and dedicated fortnight ago at Jerusalem's Hebrew University. Rau's austere approach to his task conformed with a striking text in the Jewish Prayer Book: "He who is walking by the way and rehearses what he has learnt, and breaks off from his rehearsing and says, 'How fine is that tree, how fine is that field,' him the Scripture regards as if he were guilty against himself." Rau decided against all distractions...
...three should "bawl with disappointment" when his small fingers struck a discord on the clavier. At four, Wolferl scribbled down his first clavier concerto; at five, before he had had a single violin lesson, he played second fiddle in a trio. "One need not have learnt in order to play second fiddle," he informed the grownups...
...especially, perhaps, old humanistic liberal man-who is due either for a mutation of species or extinction. Says Koestler: "Once we hoped for Utopia; now, in a chastened mood, we can at best hope for a reprieve; pray for time and play for time; for had the dinosaur learnt the art of prayer, the only sensible petition for him would have been to go down on his scaly knees and beg, 'Lord, give me another chance...
...England's "Old Catholics" and a vital pawn in the game of Anglo-Spanish diplomacy. When she mounted the throne at 37, she was a "small and thin.'' unattractive woman, old for her age and with "a loud and deep voice" in which she had "never learnt to lie," but only, as she said, "to be plain with you." She had one fixed intention: to restore the old religion. But she swore "graciously not to compel or constrain" the consciences of those who had accepted...