Word: compliments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Australia helpfully suggested that since the English language was in dispute, everyone should talk Spanish. Up jumped Mexican Delegate Santiago de la Vega. His language had been insulted! No, shushed a colleague: it was a compliment, not an insult...
...surest signs of spring in Buenos Aires is the piropo, the compliment whispered to girls by young men on the prowl. Sometimes it is a simple: "Ah, mi corazón, where are you going?" More frequently it is a formularized gambit of a sort that has been used for generations. Thus, overhauling a girl in a green dress, a gay blade breathes into her ear: "You are a miracle when green; what will you be when you are ripe...
What is needed is a semosterly course to serve as a compliment to Humanities 12a--"Great Artist." This course should concern itself not only with great composers and musical works of the past, but should attempt to approach music from a more modern view, analyzing it as an outpouring of the emotions and social terminant. Also, it should strive to link up music with the other humanistic fields of art and literature. It should try to teach some understanding of the principles of the main forms and modes of musical expression, such as the sonata and symphony. By making...
Scarlett O'Hara's creator, Atlantan Margaret Mitchell, made a gracious Old Confederate response to a compliment. British Cinemagnate J. Arthur Rank's wife, Nell, had said something nice about Gone With the Wind on a visit to Atlanta last summer; but Author Mitchell was away at the time. So now, at length, she made the reciprocal gesture. To Mrs. Rank she sent a note of thanks, and enclosed a souvenir $5 Confederate bill...
...course, I have made the same compliment to other classes, but then I had never seen the class of 1951. You will find the campus cluttered with shacks, tenements, huts and barracks. Where the goober-hangers- are going to find a place I don't know [laughter]. Somehow we will make out. . . . The general level of education . . . must be raised if we are to disappoint the Kremlin with the vigor of our society. . . . You must work hard here, and you must think. That is probably harder work than you have ever done...