the ice thaws

the theatre is predominated by the usual greyheads (average age one hundred)

The 1968 movement pressed against the boundaries of any normalism.

The Lahore Museum was larger, but here were more wonders—ghost-daggers and prayer-wheels from Tibet; […] gilt figures of Buddha and little portable lacquer alters; Russian samovars with turquoises on the lid; […] arms of all sorts and kinds, and a thousand other oddments were cased, or piled, or merely thrown into the room […]