Word: complimented
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Slightly Bemused. Innkeeper Stewart's anger was a backhanded compliment to the power of a woman who. in an overcrowded journalistic specialty, has managed to find a place and a style her own. Quite by coincidence, Inez herself produced another reminder of her style last week with publication of Don't Just Stand There! (David McKay Co.; $4.95). A collection of her columns, the book suggests that Columnist Robb not only wears well, but brings to her specialty an admirable energy and skill. Columnist Robb's Irish blue eyes see life, both high and low. with...
...What a Character." Few recall that Mussolini once fancied himself as "the Lenin of Italy" and that Lenin himself (though Hibbert does not record the fact) returned the compliment by calling him the most hopeful prospect for Bolshevism among Europe's Socialists. In those days before World War I, Mussolini was a wide-eyed, impoverished zealot living in Milan. He edited a paper called La Lotta di Classe (The Class War), had written an anticlerical novelette, The Cardinal's Mistress, and was dedicated to revolution -particularly the violent revolution of the Communist creed. "Who has steel has bread...
...Readers compliment him on articles, but seldom argue with him, Kazin admits, solemnly regretting the middle-brow docility of his congregation. In the course of letting some of the air out of Drama Critic Kenneth Tynan, Kazin discovers a maxim he himself would do well to follow. The British writer's rule, he reports, is "rouse tempers, goad, lacerate, raise whirlwinds." Kazin does none of these things as he dolefully doles out justice...
Kadar acknowledged that there were still "class enemies" in Hungary, but said that "whatever the class enemies may do, they cannot do us as much harm as we can do ourselves with our own mistakes. The people demand humane treatment and confidence." Kadar even paid a backhanded compliment to democracy. Although Hungary has a one-party system, he said, "we must work as if we had a 20-party system and a secret election every day, because only then will the people support...
...house with more than 20 francs in his pocket because he was forever giving money away to the poor. "He made himself a great man." Madame Bourdelle says, "The man was at least as great as his works, and there is no greater compliment...