When she finally corners him, she begins by saying, "So then let us brace ourselves, Signor Fellini, and let us discuss Federico Fellini, just for a change.
" Let us brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour.'" When Londoners took refuge in bomb shelters, Prime Minister Churchill went with them, stolidly chewing on his cigar.
In this post-post-cold-war era, let us also brace ourselves for a nuanced catharsis (or subtle purgation) featuring the neo- prefix, with neoadventurism, neoczarism and those contrary standbys, neoisolationism and neoimperialism.
Before the Battle of Britain: Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will say: "This was their finest hour".
The speech — ending with the words "Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that if the British empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour' " — has resonated ever since.
"Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour.' " They were only words, but as Churchill himself once remarked, "Words are the only things which last forever".
Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duty and so bear ourselves that if the British Commonwealth and Empire last for a thousand years, men will still say, "This was their finest hour".
Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth lasts for a thousand years, men will say, 'This was their finest hour!'".
And, let us hope, it is a sign (Amitai Etzioni's bracing 2007 book "Security First" is another) that the American left is developing wisdom and a governing sensibility, even as the right gives itself over to juvenile radicalism.
Amid last-call shows and auctions of arrogantly expensive stuff, some events prefigured the sorts of things we will talk about once a dolorous but bracing silence of cash registers has let us hear ourselves think again.
Let us know at the usual address: [email protected] "Have brothers ever scored a brace each in the same game before?" ponders Ben Bagnall.
