Word: compliments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harry Byrd is rather fond of young Jack Kennedy. "He's a very attractive person," says the Senator from Virginia. "He's got ability, no doubt about that." The President of the U.S. returns the compliment-in a way. "You know," he has said, "Harry Byrd is the most gracious person you'd want to meet. But does he give us fits...
Conductor's Compliment. Foss's experiment in time is so challenging that at its premiere, almost two years ago, Conductor Leonard Bernstein insisted on playing the piece a second time for a discriminating 400 that lingered at concert's end to try to find out exactly what they had heard. (Said Lenny to the 400: "I compliment you.") Since then, many a conductor has deemed Time Cycle worthy of one, if not two, hearings, and it has become a frequently performed modernist work. Last week at the Stratford Festival in Stratford, Ont., it was played with Foss...
...American art critic free-lancing in Europe this summer, I must compliment you on your concise and readable account of Venice's Biennale [June 29], an art show that could not possibly be fully covered ex cept through superhuman means...
...compliment you on the excellent explanation, in ordinary language, of the confused agriculture support program of the U.S. Government [TIME, June...
...softened Adenauer with long reminiscences of his graduate student days in Berlin 30 years ago, of tours in the Rhineland, of the Weimar era. As the wine and champagne flowed, Rusk rose to toast U.S.-West German friendship, then turned to the old Chancellor with the ultimate and justified compliment. Seldom in a lifetime, said Rusk, did one have the opportunity to meet such a "historic personality." Next morning, in Adenauer's spacious office by the Rhine, the pair got down to business. Der Alte was anxious to present his new plan to immediately draw up a contract...