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...Mary Lou plays at The Composer are her own arrangements, including such standards as Somebody Loves Me (with strong, marching chords and racing right hand) and a limber, longing I'm in the Mood for Love. She plays them all with deadpan face until the music begins to stride. Then the head nods, the lips part in a shy smile and "Yeah," says Mary Lou Williams softly. "Yeah...
Space flight enthusiasts talk confidently about trips to the moon, but so far no rocket, even an unmanned one, has climbed more than 0.25% of the distance-about 600 miles, unofficially credited to the Lockheed X17. The first vehicle to make a really big stride into space will probably be a cheap, unstreamlined, unglamorous, four-stage job assembled out of familiar rocket hardware by Aeronutronic Systems, Inc., a Ford Motor Co. subsidiary at Glendale, Calif. Its gimmick: it will start at 100,000 ft. from a balloon...
...those who can take that grisly moment in stride, Fires on the Plain will not seem unbearable; it is a painful book to read, but rewardingly so. Unlike most of the Japanese novels that have reached the U.S. during the past few years, this one has neither the perfumed style nor the Oriental passivity and obliqueness that have made the others too exotic for Western tastes. Its hero is an infantry soldier at the end of whatever rope the author may choose to pull. He is the universal G.I. in whatever uniform comes to hand. But since he is Japanese...
...West took the upheaval in its summer stride, as if the appeal of freedom and erosion of despotism were now so clearly established that they needed no self-conscious exploitation. The President did not cancel his Fourth of July weekend on the farm at Gettysburg; the Secretary of State did not return from his long weekend at Duck Island, his retreat on Lake Ontario. In Washington the experts' comments on Khrushchev's apparent dominance ranged from a cynical "You can't run anything with a committee" to sweeping predictions that the beginning of the end of Russian...
...this approach for dealing with anything which really mattered to him He found himself regarding the academic life as a meaningless game, a juggling of materials into circular and therefore meaningless patterns. And so Rumplestiltskin was forced either to ignore what he was learning or else to stride pensively up and down his Elsinore posing endless alternatives until either madness or disaster followed his incapacity to exclude possibilities in favor of action...