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...quite content that you should "own" the atomic bomb, kill the ump, boo the Dodgers and eat more steak than the unfortunates without your borders, but your mode of posing it in international magazines is (we think) not the very best way to win friends and influence people...
...Quebec's picturesque Lower Town lies the district of St. Sauveur, a ragged slum in which French Canadians cling to "a mode of life tenaciously wedded to the past and resistant to all progress, obstinately refusing any kind of change for the reason that all change was brought about by outsiders." Unlike the rest of Quebec City's picture-postcard prettiness, St. Sauveur is a wretched place: its proletarian "mulots" are ignorant and desperately poor, its bourgeois "soyeux" (silken ones) often bigoted and pretentious...
With five minutes to go, Coach Hickey mercifully took Macauley out of the game, two minutes later put in his scrubs. Final score: 65-52. Then the Billikens joyfully broke training with banana cream pie a la mode', went off to an all-night bowling alley for a little exercise...
...Brady had refined her techniques to the point of excellence, while keeping her pictures childishly simple In content. The combination was as appetizing as pie à la mode. With her first Paris show (TIME, May 13, 1946), O'Brady was hailed by one critic as "the only great painter of the New World...
When, in his later novels, he tried to achieve a more objective and disciplined mode of expression, his writing fell flat. Restraint was not for him. The attempt to cut away his faults inevitably meant a destruction of his virtues; both poured from the same volcanic source...