Word: compliments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...degree was arranged for Sir Charles by Sholokhov as a return compliment for the role Sir Charles had played in the bestowing of an honorary doctorate on Sholokhov at Scotland's Saint Andrews University in April 1962, the first Russian writer to be so honored in a British university since Turgenev's honorary doctorate at Oxford in 1879. I was born and grew up in Rostov. That coat of felt and goat's wool is surely familiar to me, even though it does not at all belong in any groves of academe...
...compliment the lady who has her navel on display? Your Hawaiian readers should surely tell you the cordial solution is their traditional salutation, "Pehea ká piko?" That is to say, "How's the navel...
...Frost Library at Amherst College: "When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the areas of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses." The poets have now repaid the compliment. Not since Lincoln's assassination has an American's death inspired so much poetry, the best of which has been collected in this volume. Established poets-W. H. Auden, Richard Eberhart, John Berryman, among others-lent their usual talent; lesser-known poets rose to more than usual eloquence...
...somewhat left-handed compliment, U.N. Secretary-General U Thant described Russia's new bosses as "competent and unpretentious." So far, at least, they have plenty to be unpretentious about. The start of their rule was not auspicious. Nikita Khrushchev was deposed and out of sight, but his invisible presence still badly cramped the style of the new Moscow team. When Premier Aleksei Kosygin and his teammate Leonid Brezhnev, new head of the Communist Party, made their first joint public appearance in Red Square to hail Russia's three most recent cosmonauts, applause from the onlookers was markedly listless...
...Tragical Historie of Dr. Faustus is Christopher Marlowe's greatest play. The current off-Broadway effort by the Phoenix Theater's repertory company is not so much a revival as a disinterment. It is a clammy sort of compliment to pay the Elizabethan playwright in the 400th anniversary year that he shares with Shakespeare, but perhaps better than no celebration...