Word: accountants
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...events in Seldes' professional life are seen as emotional experiences. When a play she thought would run for a thousand performances closed after opening night, a newly-opened charge account goes unused, and taxis go unhailed. She marks a major career setback by measuring its small reverberations in her life-style. Similarly, she captures the human foibles of theatrical luminaries, such as Katharine Cornell's tendency to flutter her hands immediately before going onstage. Artists like Sir John Gieglud and Alfred Lunt are for the author magnificent human beings. Olivier in particular emerges not so much as the world...
...followed excitement. From wat, in China to peace in Europe to Presidential campaigns in America. Theodore H. White's In Search of History: A Personal Expedition is his account of the excitement he follows. While the book is White's personal view of history, and in particular a personal view of his history, it is not a probing view of his personality, which is an important distinction to remember when reading his work...
...strains to evoke the magic of mass marches of 30,000 people with phrases like "very moving" which only call attention to his prosaic writing. Normally, a simple stylistic flaw in a journalistic account would be relatively unimportant, but when writing about Northern Ireland, style is paramount. A chronology of events tied together with trite homilies contributes of the Irish conflict. You might just as well read another newspeper story...
Throughout the earlier chapters, Leakey breaks the somewhat monotonous account of paleontological history with amusing anecdotes. He tells about his friend almost being gobbled up by a crocodile while swimming in Lake Turkanay be offers insights into the personalities of big-time anthropologists and paleontologists and draws the reader into the world of bones and fractured skulls until the reader begins to share his enthusiasm...
From the outset of this marriage by convenience, man and wife try to get what they can out of each other. Julia shows Henry the finer points of gold prospecting, while he applies himself to Julia's education in bed. "You can always tell a virgin on account of the whites of the eyes aren't clear," Henry assures her. "I don't want to brag a lot, but I have on occassion put a gal or two in tune with nature." Undaunted, the feisty Julia spits back, "I'm sure nature is grateful...