Word: brushoffs
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Noise & Emotion. Annie Moss and her attorney, a Negro lawyer named George E. C. Hayes, did not accept this brushoff without protest. Hayes wrote each member of the subcommittee, noting that the Army has suspended her from her job. The Washington Daily News took up her case. While McCarthy was in Florida two weeks ago, the subcommittee agreed to give her the chance to defend herself...
...exile, Playboy Farouk last week gave a royal brushoff to a bill collector who wanted to collect on a $5,000 underwear bill, and drove off to Monte Carlo in a station wagon with his latest collector's item, brunette Irma Capece Minutolo, aged...
Repeatedly, Teheran diplomats phoned the Russian embassy to check the rumor of Lavrentiev's attempt at suicide. First they got only the brushoff, then the embassy was a little more talkative: the ambassador was very ill and could not be disturbed. "He has suffered a heart attack, like any other man," explained an embassy spokesman. But the curious were not at all satisfied. Teheran newspapers put their untrammeled imaginations to bear, with varied results: MVD men had shot the ambassador when he tried to flee to the U.S. embassy; the ambassador had shot himself; the ambassador had tried...
...American premiere of a full-length opera by a man whom many consider the greatest composer of the 20th century would have been a good opportunity for a cover story on Igor Stravinsky and The Rake's Progress. Instead, we were offered a nauseating little brushoff, squeezed in after a cover story on a female popular singer who, not just incidentally, represents "success" in a way that a great composer of serious music . . . could not possibly...
...gave the Speech Department another full-time man and a large slice of the budget. For, if the ability to write English is worth a year's course and a corps of section men, surely the ability to speak deserves more than a slim budget and a brushoff...