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...Chamber far more amenable to his will than the one he inherited on his Coronation. Although above party politics according to the Constitution, the ambitious boy-King has booted out the Premier of the majority Wafdist (nationalist) Party, Mustafa Nahas Pasha, and dissolved the Parliament. The Wafd, torn by internal dissension, split into two groups, a Nahas Pasha bloc and the insurgents who call themselves Saadists or "true Wafdists...
Years ago when the Yard cops were uniforms and Duchesses did not bathe in gold tubs there was an old pump on the corner of Matthews. Torn down in 1885 this pump existed long enough to provide workers in the old Coop with water for washing...
...tombstone," says Trigorin, "they will say: Here lies Trigorin, who was a good writer, but not so good a one as Turgenev." It exposes Nina's swimming-eyed romanticism. Chekhov suggested, though Actor Lunt has not heeded him, that Trigorin should not be dapper or handsome, should wear torn shoes. Chekhov's point was subtle: to a girl like Nina, the more down-at-the-heel Trigorin is, the more exciting he will seem...
...psychologists investigated themselves by their own beloved statistical methods, they would probably find that-as a group compared with other scientists-they were cheerful, convivial, well-dressed, well-mannered, interested in one another, argumentative, mildly frustrated. Psychology is a science notably torn by internal dissension, a state of affairs which is only partly due to the fact that it harbors a relatively large number of women. It is the human mind in the act of investigating itself-a tricky business, to which the rigorous methods of other sciences are frequently not applicable. It draws generalizations from large numbers of individuals...
Throughout the country, elections of local union officers were being completed. Though re-elected without opposition at the union's faction-torn convention last August, President Martin is by no means an unchallenged leader. The current local elections have little to do with local issues; they have become a judgment of the Martin administration. In each local auto workers were usually confronted with two slates: Progressive and Unity. (Both factions accuse each other of being false to their names.) The Progressives are led by Martin and his hand-picked assistant president, Richard Frankensteen. The Unity group is a combination...