Word: briefings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...metaphor is not inappropriate: though Boris Vian wrote the novel in 1946, the world it created seems more in tune with perceptions at a stoned-soul picnic than with the view from a bistro in post-war Paris. In a brief preface Vian explains that the book's "material realization consists in projecting reality obliquely and enthusiastically onto another surface which is irregularly corrugated and so distorts everything...
Simenon no longer mixes much at all. His day begins at 6 a.m. but, since he acts as his own agent, much time is taken up with voluminous correspondence with publishers in each country where his books appear. He writes in brief, intense spurts, but he is no longer quite as prolific as he was in 1928, for example, when he turned out 40 books in one year. Simenon's yearly harvest is now four, and he uses an IBM electric typewriter in place of the pencils that once lasted only three lines each before they became blunted...
...hastens to explain what he means. "It seemed that each Cabinet officer who came to brief me on the challenges before us spoke as a voice from the past." That is the second sentence in the book. It goes nicely with the first...
Nixon turned tourist in Westminster Abbey, asking the height of the ceiling and pausing before the U.S. Medal of Honor awarded to Britain's Unknown Warrior. There was a brief moment of embarrassment when the Union Jack on his limousine turned out to be upside down...
...austere tradition of the Wahhabi sect to which he belonged, Saud's burial was simple. His body, wrapped in a Saudi flag, was flown in a special aircraft to Riyadh, and after brief ceremonies was buried somewhere in the capital. In keeping with tradition, there is no gravestone. Only a small group of holy men know the last resting place of one of the world's wealthiest...