Word: compliments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cover story on William Faulkner [July 17] is a beautiful job-the clearest, fairest, most concise explanation of Faulkner's philosophy and purpose in life that I have ever read. We were proud here at Random House to be his publisher, and I personally considered his friendship a compliment beyond measure. Incidentally, every one of Faulkner's books is now either back in print-for good-or in the course of production...
...Callas enjoyed a tremendous success in Paris as Norma [June 26]; the boos came from the anti-Callas faction. They may boo her, but they really pay her the highest compliment by paying "Callas prices" at the box office. They may hate her, but they just can't stay away...
...taste for economics, he has given Pierre Massé, the commissioner of Le Plan, free rein to develop the planning machinery, which holds out rewards of tax credits and easy loans for companies that produce what the government suggests. Not long ago, the Common Market paid Massé the compliment of setting up a similar body to plan for the Six. An expert in the complex field of the mathematics of economics, Massé has sharpened his colleagues' ability to predict the consequences of some policies and to propose counteractions by changing interest rates and money supplies...
CATERINA VALENTE (London) sings one of the spate of new recordings glorifying the World's Fair City. Happen to Like New York. Caterina, who was born in Paris and can sing in eleven languages, has just the right cosmopolitan shimmer in her voice to make the compliment mean something, and she refreshes songs like Take the A" Train and Lullaby of Broadway...
...Paid West German Chancellor Ludwig Erhard the compliment of receiving him at the first state dinner ever held in the White House Rose Garden...