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Perhaps the most common reason for giving to the Fund was expressed in a talk by Edward Streeter '14, author of Father of the Bride. "Although the graduate's memories will differ in detail, they will be basically similar to mine, and he will sigh with regret that an era so good, so rich, so colorful, so filled with giants and genius and laughter, should have passed away forever--and then he will fumble in the lower drawer of his desk for his checkbook...
...surface of official society, just as Madame de Sévigné symbolized the outer serenity and almost Japanese exactitude of social forms. There is no evidence that her 17th century mind understood that underground passion for evil any more than the passion for sainthood. She could only sigh with stoic disenchantment: "What hope can there be. for one who is neither worthy of heaven nor of hell?" This line sums up perfectly a kind of moral neutralism that did not end with Madame de Sévign...
...Work. The rippling second movement gave no clear idea of tonal home base, but it developed a comic effect as it progressed through subtly different rhythms. The third movement, again in pensive tempo, gave the soloist another long melody that breathed nostalgically of twilight among ruins, then let it sigh into a noontime atmosphere with a passage in octaves, then into a recitative of murmurous beauty, where Oistrakh's instrument spoke in unevenly repeated notes. The solo cadenza started with simple triads in different keys, then confronted them with each other in a clashing dissonance, then became more brusque...
...days in Burlington, Vt., Emma had had a mysterious breathing difficulty. For no apparent reason she would take a deep breath and then, as she thought, "stop breathing"; actually, she took shallow breaths on top of what she was holding, finally let all the air out with a giant sigh. Afraid of suffocating, she had spent years going from doctor to doctor, finally quit her work. Last October, a neurologist decided that her trouble was emotional, referred her to Montreal's famed Allan Institute...
Captain of the team will be Harold Fey (rhymes with sigh), 57, a Disciples of Christ minister who joined the Century in 1940, became managing editor in 1947 and executive editor in 1952. "I wish Hutchinson were going to continue, and that's the fact of the matter," he said last week. "All I can say is that I will make a pious resolution to do the best I can, and hope for a special endowment of grace from...