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Introductory meeting are at the Building, December 5 and 6. Shall you seize the moment now or slide in Lethe? Ladies (yes suffrage movements have most definitely wrought their work in this citadel) and gentlemen, the day is yours. Take it while...
...grand. At five he wrote his first tune, and at nine he contributed melodies to a show of his father's. He also spent so much vagabond time in backstage dressing rooms that his parents decided to put him in a Berlin military school. He still resentfully recalls the wrought-iron gates closing on his smiling, light-footed mother, a blown kiss and her casual "Goodbye, my love, be happy." Later he studied piano at Stern's Conservatory in Berlin, preparing for a concert career. But at 15 he tossed off the first hint of Broadway a popular song called...
More than a Dollhouse. In Chartres Cathedral the Virgin Mary is said to have appeared many times and wrought miracles. In 861, three years after the church was destroyed for the first time (by the northern invader Hastings). Charles the Bald donated a treasured relic, the shift of the Virgin (now known as the Sacred Veil). By charging admission to see it, he reasoned, money could be raised for the church's rebuilding. The veil is still there, and Chartres is dedicated to the Virgin. "This church was built for her," wrote Henry Adams, "in this spirit of simpleminded...
...Congo's chaotic political climate, communications are so bad that not a single official item of information on births, deaths and disease has been reaching the central government at Léopoldville. As beleaguered U.N. medics struggled to undo the damage wrought by the Belgians' abrupt departure, the job still looked almost hopeless. Said one U.N. doctor: "It is inconceivable that such a breakdown in health services should occur in the 20th century. The Congo is just a few months short of returning to a medieval health pattern...
...enterprise than others. Daniel Seltzer's independent, personable Ulysses, Robert Thurman's willowy, boyish Troilus, William Fitz-Hugh's dim-witted Ajax with his fatuous pride, Alvarez Bulos' slippery Pandarus with oily speech and manners, David Stone's manly Hector, Travis Linn's pious Nestor, Jean Weston's over-wrought, unkempt Cassandra--all have individuality in one degree or another...