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...have observed the "new democracy" at work in every village the Communists have taken. The Chinese say that the Reds have a "three-head policy." The first stage is the "nod head," when they are polite to the people and want to make friends. The second stage is the "shake head," when they begin to refuse the people's requests. The third stage comes when they are in full control; it is called the "chop head...
...vanished days of chivalry and armored knights, he poured his heart into what he considered his "serious" fiction: The White Company, Sir Nigel, Micah Clarke. But soon he realized that that man Holmes was stalking him as remorselessly as if he were a criminal. He tried to shake Holmes off by demanding "impossible" prices for Holmes stories-only to find that the publisher gladly paid up. Doyle became rich on Holmes-and sick to death of him. When doctors told him that his young wife would die of tuberculosis in a few months, he went to Switzerland with her. Earlier...
...Tourel to give the new Marienleben its first performance. Jennie, as good as they come in skill and agility of voice, took a run over the score and gulped. Even after revision, the score was the most difficult Jennie had ever seen. But, she says, she couldn't shake off the beauty of Rilke's poems and the challenge of Hindemith's powerful music. With Pianist Erich Itor Kahn, she worked on it, finally, after months of study and some 40 rehearsals, mastered its immense difficulties...
...Jewish renaissance, and Menachem Mendel Ussishkin, its practical leader. He also met Western Jews: assimilationists who wanted no part of Zionism ; dedicated Jews, like Theodore Herzl, founder of the Zionist Congress; elegant English Jews, like Sir Francis Montefiore, who wore white gloves to Congress meetings because he had to shake so many hands...
...flowered, hat, spread a pink and blue robe over her knees. She listens to the music with her hearing aid held out in front of her and applauds generously with arms outstretched. If it is a Boston Symphony concert, you will see Koussevitzky come down from the podium to shake hands with her. If she is giving the concert herself, which is probably the case, you will watch one of the musicians motion her to rise and acknowledge the thunderous thanks of the audience. This is Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge, "the fairy godmother of chamber music...