Word: asking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pablo Picasso once warned a baffled interviewer not to "ask questions of the man at the wheel." People think he is sometimes off his course, but the aging (65) helmsman of modern art presumably knows where he is going. For 40 years he has let others debate his painting for him. The debate was hot as ever last week...
...wonder if I should know something about football? I'm sure dates just love me to ask them all about it. The only thing I know is that you shouldn't cheer when your date is biting off his nails; and you shouldn't admire the wrong band. Everyone knows that Harvard's band is the best in the land...
...wonder if I should know something about football? I'm sure dates just love me to ask them all about it. The only thing I know is that you shouldn't cheer when your date is biting off his nails; and you shouldn't admire the wrong band. Everyone knows that Harvard's band is the best in the land...
...teacher is indifferent to poetry. "This teacher is every bit as dangerous, because he has nothing at all to restrain him. ... He makes poetry yield dividends. He gives marks for it. He asks his pupils to paraphrase it. ... Ask anyone to paraphrase a poem and . . . you suggest that a poem is a sort of fancy dress for a statement that can be made equally well in plain prose...
...Bing-bald Buddy Clark, 35. In the late '30s, Buddy was well up into the second team of U.S. crooners, but his big mouth spoiled it all. Says one radio producer: "He'd louse up a song right on the air. You'd ask him why. Oh, he just felt like it." When Buddy got out of the Army in 1945, he was soberer, had a "new, terrific soul" in his voice. The Carnation program took a gamble on him (Mon. 10 p.m., NBC), and a Clark record (Linda) sold over a million copies. He now croons...