Word: aptness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...omnivorous tastes, who sums up his chief delights (besides Shakespeare) as "the four Bs-banking, baseball, Balzac and bourbon." As he makes his rounds, he speaks in an irretrievable Southern drawl, mixes so well that he charms people no matter how anti-banker or anti-American they are apt to be. Once, at a state dinner given by Marshal Tito, the conversation through interpreters was dragging badly when Tito, rotundly resplendent in his dress uniform, asked Black if he might try one of the banker's fancy Corona Corona cigars. After the Yugoslav dictator started to puff away, Black...
...meaning c-Christian pity. It is true that most of these poems, some of them rich in language and nearly all steeped in emotion, are bearish on the human condition. No one reading them or seeing Williams' latest play (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof) is apt to suppose that Tennessee Williams is changing his point of view. But not even Williams can stew complacently in pessimism all the time. He knows that there really are destinations other than despair, and finds that
...Khrushchev indictment means that Russia's entire postwar "peace" campaign was a sham, that Stalin was the aggressor in every cold-war episode. In Korea, said Khrushchev, "Stalin personally ordered the attack to begin," When word of all that gets out, Italian Communists are apt to feel even more buggerato...
...basis of these interviews which Riesman himself called "fragmentary," he said the present graduate does not foresee much struggle in life, and is more apt to "plan" his life well in advance, even before he completes school...
Wyzanski added that "service on this particular United States assignment would be so apt to have political as well as legal implications" that he could not continue as Federal judge and accept the appointment. It is known that the question of Red China's admission, as well as tensions in the Middle East, will again be on the General Assembly's agenda...