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...year ago, I sat . . . listening while she poured out the saga of her life. I had come to Ireland to do research on a book about William Butler Yeats, and she had consented to see me; but nothing so rich and gracious had been anticipated. Wrapped in a black silk brocade robe with great silver buttons, she sat by a coal fire under an oval picture of her mother, and guarded by a Maltese cat. My heart hurt. Could this wreck, this ruin, this witch be the "outrageously beautiful" Maud Gonne? The woman Yeats had called "a classical impersonation...
Look East, Old Europe. Next to the Iron Curtain, European and Japanese traders resent the thickets of U.S. tariffs and import regulations. Said a Japanese: "The Americans tell us not to trade with the Communists . . . then they turn around and raise their duties on tuna and silk scarves. It doesn't make sense...
Back in the maelstrom last week, the suntanned President looked healthy and rested after a nine-day vacation in Georgia. The office had a new look, too: a-huge, bright-colored Japanese silk screen, a present from Crown Prince Akihito, stood before the fireplace. But the endless torrent of people and papers still flowed, and the vacation-time backup made the flow even stronger than usual...
...save for a few absurdities, Spring and Summer fashions would escape the malediction hurled by the fellow who himself wore flowing green silk neckties, a green velvet jacket and knee-breeches, and who strolled around London with "a flower or a lily clutched in his medieval hand...
...more hopeful way. We can lighten our load and liberate our energies." Encased to the last in his impenetrable Oxford-don manner, Rab Butler sat down. The Laborites sat in morose silence: he had left them few chinks to shoot at. Two or three Tories had brought along their silk toppers, the traditional thing to wave on jubilatory occasions, and now waved them with the fervor of shipwreck survivors signaling smoke on the horizon. Prime Minister Churchill, however, was not satisfied with the demonstration. His face working with emotion, he rose and wigwagged some papers in his hand to rouse...