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...cloth was quickly counteracted by the odor of gunpowder after the bombing. From a "gambler" he changed suddenly into a "martyr." He moved from his damaged cottage into his striking Charity Crucifixion Tower, remained incommunicado save to announce that he would soon reply to his "enemies." Sunday, with vibrant voice, he addressed once more the ten million. Defending his right to speak of financial matters, he renewed his denunciations of "crap-shooting bank affiliates and their hideout holding companies" which he had charged were formed to evade paying double liability. His investments he mentioned only briefly, crying that the Free...
...overcoat in the chill wind, swung around to the crowd before him, launched vigorously into his inaugural address. His easy smile was gone. His large chin was thrust out defiantly as if at some invisible, insidious foe. A challenge rang in his clear strong voice. For 20 vibrant minutes he held his audience, seen and unseen, under a strong spell. Only occasionally was he interrupted by cheers & applause...
...Mexicans were very extreme, but they gave him a panel, 7 ft. by 8 ft. at the end of a corridor leading to Carpenter Hall, to put up a sample. Muralist Orozco summoned his assistant, Master Plasterer Juan Jorge Crespo, and went to work. They produced a fresco in vibrant Mexican color entitled "Man Released from the Mechanistic." It showed a mass of broken machinery-cannon, gears, buzzsaws, bayonets and distilling worms-out of which is arising a naked youth with a cauliflower ear and a bright shoe-button eye, who seems to be violently clapping his hands...
...great literary critic, and read some poetry to him. Saint-Beuve's library was soon vibrating to the warm emotional tone with which a young man reads poetry, particularly when the poetry happens to be his own. The great critic listened with nostalgic enthusiasm to a succession of vibrant and polished stanzas, and when the visitor had departed he turned to his desk and added in PostScript to a letter "There is among us a boy full of genius...
...March of Time" is vibrant and volatile, pithy and pert, with a minimum of advertising chatter. Would you force your listeners to a life of listening to tooth paste propaganda and vacuum-headed crooners...