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...resaid. I never write anything with the idea of putting any ideas into it, perhaps because I don't have any ideas. Mostly, I have a heart. I don't have any message any more." Do such beliefs lead to ambiguity in his work? Williams' workaday answer: "Life is an ambiguous thing, a floating cloud, something neither black nor white, but eternally grey . . . How then can a man help being ambiguous...
Though the VIPs get the headlines, the hospitals really exist for the benefit of their workaday patients: servicemen, who pay nothing, and their dependents, who pay $1.75 a day. Between them, the hospitals care for 32,000 bed patients a year-some flown in from ships of the Navy, Army posts and Air Force bases scattered around the world. Each general hospital is the hub of a great medical center, designed for teaching and research as well as patient-care. Walter Reed and Bethesda are constantly and quietly pioneering along many medical lines...
Ceremony over, the new Commons quickly reverted to its workaday manners. The Queen's speech, said Attlee tartly, "was paved with good intentions"; and he launched an attack on Eden's handling of the rail strike, then in its second week. When Laborites jeered at an Eden sally, Eden snapped: "The trouble with members opposite is that they all want-to be leaders at once." The gibe struck home, reducing the Labor benches to momentary glum silence...
...justice according to law to every man, woman and child that may come before them and to preserve individual freedom against any aggression of government; judges with the humility born of wisdom, patient and untiring in the search for truth, and keenly conscious of the evils arising in a workaday world from any unnecessary delay-judges with all these attributes are not easy to find, but which of these traits dare we eliminate if we are to hope to attain evenhanded justice...
...workaday side, Kobu is the art of polishing and shaping the unearthed roots of hardwood trees and bushes, of which cypress and cranberry roots are the best examples. Kobu is officially defined (by A. H. Eaton) as, " a curious, natural wood growth found in trees, usually about the roots . . . once the dead bark is removed the cherished Kobu is revealed, unusual in form, beautiful in grain, often rare in color, and no two ever alike." The Kobu artist then takes the root and begins a long and traditional pattern of hand rubbing and waxing (often with rare and expensive waxes...