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Vittorini has won them acclaim in the U.S. Rome, not Paris, is the capital of a new generation of postwar U.S. expatriates, who this time celebrate not what they have lost but what they have found...
Slowly all the poetry went out of piro-peando. In recent years, girls have had to listen to such blunt acclaim as "Hey, Mamacita!" or "What a chicken!" In disgust, Maracaibo's prefect made piropos punishable with a loo-bolivar ($30) fine, which brought a new piropo into fashion: "If I only had 100 bolivars...
Collier's editor than as the author of four books about U.S. Negroes, which have won him considerable critical acclaim as well as a Julius Rosenwald fellowship and the $2,500 George Washington Carver award. Moon, who is often mistakenly thought to be a Negro because of his writing, for ten years was an editor at Doubleday & Co.; six months ago he joined Collier's staff...
Tobin drew general acclaim with "He knew how to get men on the payroll. He always seemed to know how to do it." Tobin continued, "In 1932, I thing it was, a man came up from Washington and everybody close around Boston was having a hard time putting men on. Not Billy. He always knew...
With the glimmer of a Korean truce in the ofling, the Administration could walk into public acclaim and out of world leadership by turning its back on Asia. But in the new Dulles plan to send arms to Indo-China and earmark some of our French funds for use in that war, the free world can find assurance that the United States is not going to pack its bag and get out of Asia as soon as the truce is settled...