Word: archangels
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President Kennedy announces in his State of the Union message that he is very pleased with himself. Describing McGeorge Bundy as the "Nation's number one asset," he expresses dismay that anyone could think Bundy ambitious. George Romney receives Kennedy's speech coolly: he reveals that an Archangel appeared to him in a vision and urged that he "keep an eye on national politics...
George Romney announces that the Archangel Macaroni thinks "a proven business success could do a better job as President...
George Romney tells the press that the Archangel Macaroon considers Michigan the best-run state in the Union. Henry Kissinger writes a sequel to the Allen Drury series, Advise and Plot, which paints a macabre allegorical picture of academics in Washington. In a six hour address to the Cuban people, Fidel Castro is afflicted with hiccoughs. The hiccoughs cannot be stopped, doctors...
...personal drama for the reader. Richard Ullman's Intervention and the War, a history of Anglo-Soviet relations from November 1917 to November 1918, is such a drama--one whose characters include British diplomats, Japanese generals, Czech troops and Bolshevik leaders. Its setting stretches from London to Tokyo, from Archangel to Baku...
...room. If these gimmicks sound a little too mechanical, at the expense of human service, there will also be multilingual doormen and desk clerks, and, above all, that grand old European institution, the concierge. "The European concierge," one traveler has explained, "is a combination of all-round fixer and archangel, the man who sees and knows everything and can do almost anything. He must combine the talents of a living telephone directory, tourist guide, psychologist, businessman, detective, procurer, blackmailer and infinitely tolerant uncle...