Word: asked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Visiting a New Orleans high school to observe and hear today's teenagers, Correspondent Ed Ogle, whose hair is retreating, saw a student nod his way and ask: "Who's the low joe with the high head...
...march on Asuncion." Before much blood was spilled (only one patrol clash had been reported), Government and rebels might still arrive at some kind of an understanding. Wily Dictator Morinigo was reported to have sent emissaries to the rebels. He also sent a mission to Buenos Aires to ask help from Argentina. If Buenos Aires gave him no hope (and there was no indication that it would), Morinigo would talk seriously with Concepcion...
...making its current appeal, PBH can no longer ask for blood on war-time grounds of glamourized patriotism. These donations will not give on-the-spot aid to the entrenched soldier who has stopped an enemy bullet; but they may very well help out a roommate or a Cambridge schoolboy...
...with big porches, and big rooms with big windows, and big lawns, and big trees, and flowers . . . and big shepherd dogs sleeping in the shade." Wrote one critic: "What does he want, this Saroyan? If he did not live so far away, in San Francisco, I would go and ask him." But Viennese crowded in to see the play anyway; after all, few things made sense these days...
...gift for talking about philosophy has made him one of the prides of Columbia's faculty and a crowd-drawing lecturer. The same gift, at work in his good-humored essays, will endear him to readers who do not wish to put up their hands and ask searching questions...