Word: caller
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fluent in all three). Pasternak asserts his aloofness from the Marxist world around him with quiet and kindly dignity. Once, in a conversation with a Swedish professor, he started to make some critical comment about Communism, then suddenly interrupted himself. "Possibly you are a Communist," he solicitously asked his caller. "Am I hurting your feelings...
...lumbering to tell him, almost mockingly, that West Germans ought to be pleased over the Soviet plan to get the British, French and U.S. occupation forces out of Berlin. According to drastically edited versions of the old man's outrage, he grimly and bitterly exchanged unpleasantries with his caller for an hour...
...Ford Show (NBC, 9:30-10 p.m.). A ho-ho-down, partly because Ernie Ford has chosen to dance with Cliff Arquette, the rustic, marble-mouthed caller of many a Jack Paar square dance...
...Lake Erie's Maumee Bay. The afternoon was discouragingly sunny and windy. "Too bright," said Humphrey. "On days like this the ducks fly high. A cloudy, gloomy day would be better." But Ike, hunting from an aluminum punt with Club Manager Cornelius Mominee as his guide and duck caller, quickly bagged his legal daily limit of four birds, all mallards. His shotgun: a short-barreled, 20-gauge Winchester...
...plays, modern or ancient. The Marriage-Go-Round may well be the least given to digression. Here are sex and marriage, marriage and sex, with never a servant to interrupt, or a caller to intrude, or a child to compete; with not a moment's domestic small talk or campus chatter. So much single-mindedness, so many double meanings have a way-despite occasionally funny lines-of seeming both tedious and tawdry. Where The Marriage-Go-Round is not a Junoesque strip-tease on Actress Newmar's part, it becomes an attempted script-save on Colbert...