Word: complimented
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seemed to be music-criticism time in Russia-with special emphasis on the backhanded compliment. U.S. Violinist Yehudi Menuhin, in Moscow for a congress of the International Music Council, said that he thought Soviet music was moving toward a "certain measure of sophistication." It used to be that "only one approach was tolerated," explained Menuhin. "But now they are beginning to see that there may be two or more approaches to anything. That is what I mean by sophistication." Also in Moscow, Russian Poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko commented on the sound of the great Duke Ellington, whose band has been packing...
...this attention obviously satisfies Connally's high image of himself. "I'm at the White House more than I ever was when L.B.J. was President," he says. He also amply returns the compliment implicit in the President's interest in him. "You've got a great President here," he tells unquestioning White House aides. "You ought to support him to the hilt." When he sits with Nixon and a group of businessmen, he will drop in such phrases as "Under the President's effective leadership..." He recently told friends: "What I admire most about Nixon is his raw political guts...
...Mamie Eisenhower, where his piano rendition of Happy Birthday sounded only one wrong note. He hosted a retirement party for Douglas Cornell, 65, an Associated Press correspondent who has covered seven Presidents in 43 years of White House assignments. Nixon ribbed his sometimes critical press followers with a backhanded compliment. "When I have to write anything, it's hard work," he said. "That's why I admire newspaper correspondents. You just write off the top of your head...
...unused footage from an old Gorman opus entitled The Terror. The finished film, Targets, contained a virtuoso Shootout scene at a drive-in theater. Said Director Howard Hawks: "That stuff's good and it's hard to do." Says Bogdanovich: "To me, that was the ultimate compliment...
Habash returns the compliment. In a Beirut office plastered with Mao posters and such artifacts as a U.S. seal torn from the American embassy in Amman 18 months ago, Habash said Hussein and Feisal are among his targets. "Feisal is part of the enemy camp," he told Scott. "He is working for the petroleum companies. Regimes like his want the resistance to be part of their planning. They want to rule us. We say it is more important to have the masses than to have $5,000,000 from Saudi Arabia...