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...child of seven living in the south of England in 1944. Your article brought back memories of truckloads of smiling G.I.s who gave us precious bars of chocolate as well as our first taste of chewing gum. America's sacrifice will be remembered and its G.I.s never forgotten...
Like many other poetic legends, it is only half true. Rilke was infected by a thorn in 1926, the last year of his life, but he died of leukemia. Even more misleading is the enduring impression of a precious, hypersensitive...
...Editors: As we saw during President Reagan's trip to China [WORLD, April 30], that country's accommodation of capitalist ideas is creating a structure as precious and fragile as a Ming vase. How can we not feel a sense of pride at seeing the basic tenets of our way of life being vindicated once again...
...concluded Stevens for the majority, ruling in effect that First Amendment guarantees of free speech are so important that appellate courts' right of review in such cases should not be limited to just legal issues. Judges, wrote Stevens, "must exercise such review in order to preserve the precious liberties established and ordained by the Constitution." As for the appellate court decision in the Consumers Union case, he wrote: "We agree with the Court of Appeals that the difference between hearing violin sounds move around the room and hearing them wander back and forth fits easily within the breathing space...
...variation with military smartness and preens before his eager court. In the third and strongest act, he leaps around the world in search of Cinderella in spectacular grand jetés. In the best vignette, he copes insouciantly with violent would-be princesses who wrestle with him for the precious slipper. A bit vain, lacking perhaps ideal royal tolerance, he is at heart a good egg, and better company for a full-length fairy tale in 1984 than the standard, hand-wringing Adonis. -By Martha Duffy