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`` The main bunch is outside, but there are some over there inside the wall ''.
While the pattern is uneven, some having gained more than others, nationalism has in fact served the Western peoples well.
It is perhaps difficult to conceive, but imagine that tonight on London bridge the Teddy boys of the East End will gather to sing Marlowe, Herrick, Shakespeare, and perhaps some lyrics of their own.
An approach that has appealed to some choreographers is reminiscent of Charles Olson's statement of the process of projective verse: `` one perception must immediately and directly lead to a further perception ''.
He must construct transitions so that a dancer who is told to lie prone one second and to leap wildly the next will have some physical preparation for the leap.
To my knowledge, Lincoln remains the only Head of State and Commander-in-Chief who, while fighting a fearful war whose issue was in doubt, proved man enough to say this publicly -- to give his foe the benefit of the fact that in all human truth there is some error, and in all our error, some truth.
For the family is the simplest example of just such a unit, composed of people, which gives us both some immunity from, and a way of dealing with, other people.
Yet often fear persists because, even with the most rigid ritual, one is never quite free from the uneasy feeling that one might make some mistake or that in every previous execution one had been unaware of the really decisive act.
This almost trivial example is nevertheless suggestive, for there are some elements in common between the antique fear that the days would get shorter and shorter and our present fear of war.
Even in domains where detailed and predictive understanding is still lacking, but where some explanations are possible, as with lightning and weather and earthquakes, the appropriate kind of human action has been more adequately indicated.
In some areas, the progress is slower than in others.
Though sex in some form or other enters into all human activity and it was a good thing that Freud emphasized this aspect of human nature, it is fantastic to explain everything in terms of sex.
And the life they lead is undisciplined and for the most part unproductive, even though they make a fetish of devoting themselves to some creative pursuit -- writing, painting, music.
It is worth dwelling in some detail on the crisis of this story, because it brings together a number of characteristic elements and makes of them a curious, riddling compound obscurely but centrally significant for Mann's work.
But the highroad, according to the description of its traffic, belongs to life as it is lived in unawareness of death, while the way to the churchyard belongs to some other sort of life: a suffering form, an existence wholly comprised in the awareness of death.
His name is Praisegod Piepsam, and he is rather fully described as to his clothing and physiognomy in a way which relates him to a sinister type in the author's repertory -- he is a forerunner of those enigmatic strangers in `` Death In Venice '', for example, who represent some combination of cadaver, exotic, and psychopomp.
These desires presuppose a sense of causally efficacious powers in which one is involved, some working for one's good, others threatening ill.
It will readily be seen that in this suggested network ( not materially different from some of the networks in vogue today ) greater emphasis on monitoring is implied than is usually put into practice.
Merely having a mental image of some sort is not the all-important consideration.
There is probably some significance in the fact that two of the best incest stories I have encountered in recent years are burlesques of the incest myth.
His denials of extensive reading notwithstanding, it is no doubt safe to assume that he has spent time schooling himself in Southern history and that he has gained some acquaintance with the chief literary authors who have lived in the South or have written about the South.

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-- that should a minister in Boston trust himself to his heart, should he `` speak without book, and consequently break some law of speech, or be hurried into some daring hyperbole, he should find little mercy ''.
On the other hand, for some cultures and military organizations the dagger symbolizes courage and daring in combat.
I do have courage, even some daring.
Britain's first airborne assault took place on February 10, 1941 when, what was then known as II Special Air Service ( some 37 men of 500 trained in No. 2 Commando plus three Italian interpreters ), parachuted into Italy to blow up an aqueduct in a daring raid named Operation Colossus.
Almost every book contains one or more incidents where Flashman had to fight or perform some other daring action, and held up long enough to complete it.
It first opened as a toll bridge ; to avoid the toll, in the coldest winter months some daring motorists would cross on the firmly frozen river.
During the winter months, some daring smugglers drove cars across the frozen river.
Despite its daring innovations ( and some scathing attacks by critics ), it quickly became an international success, with some 50 performances in the first 18 months after the premiere.
He was involved in many rescues, some dangerous and daring, and received both citations and medals.
Initially the Germans were treated as inferior by the Italians, but after Galland had flown some daring and impressive low-level manoeuvres, the German contingent won their hosts ' respect.
The city's cathedral, dedicated to Saint Peter ( Cathédrale Saint-Pierre de Beauvais ), in some respects the most daring achievement of Gothic architecture, consists only of a transept and quire with apse and seven apse-chapels.
The Novatianists suffered perhaps even more fearfully than the orthodox and some of them were stung into a desperate resistance: those of Constantinople removing the materials of their church to a distant suburb of the city ; those at Mantinium in Paphlagonia daring to face the imperial soldiers sent to expel them from their home.
As he had written about a subject that was considered daring at the time, Maugham had some difficulty finding a publisher.
The expectations of a leading role for herself had been left behind but not the daring descriptive language and some of these final poems have come to be her most loved.
Shortly afterwards he made a daring appearance on the BBC topical panel show Have I Got News For You, which at the time, Edwina Currie apart, was still awaiting its first truly top-level Conservative guest who had some history to them.
Contest audiences of 1971 also noticed that some Combine corps were attempting " Total Programs "-a phrase describing daring, controversial theme-based competitive innovations in costuming, marching and music that were clearly different and more radical than the then-standard norms.
Eliot also alludes to the lines near the end of Marvell's poem, " Let us roll all our strength and all / Our sweetness up into one ball ," with his lines, " To have squeezed the universe into a ball / To roll it toward some overwhelming question ," as Prufrock questions whether or not such an act of daring would have been worth it.
It is not uncommon for videos of some of the more daring streaks to find popularity on the internet.
It was daring and outlandish design " with some of the wildest fabrics and patterns ever seen in any American car ".
Once the legend trippers arrive, they spend some part of the night there, and perform the ritual if one is prescribed as a means of daring and testing the evil spirit that haunts the place.
In some ways some of us have overtaken Fisher ; in many, however, this brilliant, daring man is still far in front.

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