Word: call
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...describe the joy in my heart." But she was also learning the rough side of being on top. "No matter what accomplishments you make," she says, "somebody helps you. People saw me going up there, and now they want to ride on the wagon. Whenever I hear anyone call me 'Champ,' I think there's something behind...
...gasped audibly when Ben-Gurion announced: "The difference between Goldmann and me is that he is a Zionist and I am not. There seems to be general agreement that a Jew can live in America, speak and read English and bring up his children in American culture and still call himself a Zionist. If that is Zionism, I want no part...
Sighs at 60 Paces. Tips for stories were handed the Meades for the crudest motives-cupidity, jealousy, publicity-hunger-by a shadowy legion of informants who ranged from call girls and press-agents to the free-lance writer who testified last week that he earned $150 from Harrison by reporting the amorous escapades of an actor neighbor. Story leads came from ex-husbands or wives, or embittered lovers like the small-time movie actor who in 1955 told Confidential a story of the sexual eccentricities of a fast-rising young actress who jilted...
...beam suddenly stopped by plaster. The eye can follow the line right to its logical conclusion. There's so much chaos and confusion in the outside world today that a person has a right to peace in his own home." Adds Partner Smith: "But we don't call these houses Japanese. They do have elements of Japanese architecture in them, but that's just because we've found those elements to be the best answer to our problems...
Idyl's End. Author Cronin scarcely lives up to Herodotus or Hakluyt, for nowadays history is considered more "creative" if it is presented as fiction. Cronin has recast historic events in a form which the Persians call dastan, i.e., "near-factual history, almost myth." But the hero of this dastan will be remembered: Ghazan Khan, nomad chief of a tribe that Cronin calls the Falqani and a man hopelessly caught in the paradoxes of progress...