Word: compliments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Swallowing a grin, Pettigrew replied earnestly, "Why sir, that's the biggest compliment I've ever recieved...
...brooding mirage of sets by Mario Cristini (who spent 25 years with the San Carlo Opera in Naples), a cast of 66, a 62-voice chorus and the 74-piece Indiana University Philharmonic Orchestra, Parsifal would have done almost any opera house proud. Said Bain, who can trump any compliment: "Indiana University's production of Parsifal symbolizes a new kind of education in the musical arts...
...year-old columnist. The President loyally reads White's column, which appears three times a week in the Washington Star and 160 other papers, and he is not above calling White for advice. Together, the two men trade talk with unaffected ease; Johnson pays White the ultimate compliment of putting nothing off the record, relying on the total discretion of his friend. Once, while chatting with a group of reporters, the President suggested to his listeners that they could do worse than emulate Columnist William S. White...
...TROJAN WOMEN. This masterly revival of the Euripides classic has been directed by Michael Cacoyannis with brooding eloquence, cyclonic passion and cruel inner hurt. Mildred Dunnock, Carrie Nye and Joyce Ebert deserve the compliment of truth-that they are worthy of the playwright...
...bear it, and that life is a problem to which the only solution is death. Rarely have these inexorabilities been brought home to a modern audience with more telling force than in this masterly revival. In the leading roles, Mildred Dunnock, Carrie Nye and Joyce Ebert deserve the compliment of the truth, that they are worthy of the playwright. If there is a more perfect method for re-creating this great tragedy than Director Cacoyannis has displayed, the difference may not be worth discovering...