Word: briefings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...millions, primitive Indians eke out brief existences in the backlands of Latin America, cut off from the 20th century-or the 15th century, for that matter-by forbidding mountains, matted jungle and a towering cultural barrier. Their national languages, whether Spanish or Portuguese, are unknown tongues. Most of the Indians cannot even read or write their own dialects, and many tribes have no formal written language at all. Now, thanks to a private, U.S.-based outfit called the Summer Institute of Linguistics, the Indians are learning at least two of the three...
...reason is the inadequacy of the characters themselves. No character is nearly complete, but even in their half-drawn state they are largely improbable. One doesn't recognize anybody as a whole person, only as a brief actor...
...format of all five school concerts resembled the one at the girls' school. Demonstrations of the instruments--most of which the students had not seen before--took up a quarter of each program. The demonstrations included brief talks in Spanish by quintet members...
...this Frost seems comic most of the time, the book offers one brief, chilling hint that Frost's relentless self-preoccupation lay at the heart of the tragedies that beset most of the people close to him. His sister and one of his children went insane; another daughter died from tuberculosis. After failing at farming and writing, Frost's only son Carol shot himself. Frost had spent the previous night assuring the boy that he was not a failure. Duly reported to Louis Untermeyer, Carol's last words to his father have a ring of true horror...
...with a famous British actor. A wholesome vicar's daughter gives elocution lessons and keeps the rafters ringing at odd moments with bits of Byron and snatches of Shakespeare. "Joanna Childe," the author says, describing the girl in one of those thumbnail assessments that keep her books blessedly brief, "had a good intelligence and strong obscure emotions . . . she loved poetry rather as it might be assumed a cat loves birds...