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...finer things to come -- bigger parties, new dates, and maybe, better seats than he had gotten at New Haven. Vag dried his face and tried to think of all the strangers he had promised to meet at the first postwar Game. He winced when he remembered how his mask of indifference had dropped one day and how he had offered to bet anyone even money -- without asking any points -- that the Cannabis would take the first...
...Britain's Lord Castlereagh is Nicolson's favorite. In his day, Castlereagh was the best-hated statesman in England. (Byron called him "the vulgarest tool that Tyranny could want," and "the intellectual eunuch"; Shelley wrote the famous lines: I met Murder on the way-He had a mask like Castlereagh.) Contemptuous of parliamentary and public opinion, antiliberal, cold-blooded Castlereagh desired the independence of Poland, Saxony, Genoa, but when he found these aims were unattainable he set them aside. "The Congress of Vienna," he said bluntly to his furious critics in Parliament, "was not assembled for the discussion...
Presented under the auspices of the Carleton Club, the fracas will feature witches from Wellesley and Simmons, residents of Boston, and even a smattering of 'Cliffedwellers peering in at the windows. Stags are urged to come dressed as something more original than a college student, with mask as the absolute minimum, since an undisclosed prize will be awarded to the wearer of the most startling costume...
...This French novel, economical, quiet and painful in its insights, concerns the old Catholic bourgeois society of France before World War I. The central figure in the story is Brigitte Pian, a woman whose intense religious life is a mask for her pride and will to dominate others. The scruples with which she torments those dependent on her may seem fantastic to casual readers, but they are logical consequences of a false and formal Christianity...
...Pedro II Station in Rio was incomplete behind its majestic façade. Train sheds had still to be roofed. At rush hour 150,000 commuters and fellow travelers jammed narrow platforms, were squirted on & off trains like toothpaste. The grandeur of Dom Pedro II Station could not mask the rickety state of Brazil's railways...