Word: compliments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rounding out this volume are Camus' critical essays, including those on Sartre, Ignazio Silone, Melville, Gide and Faulkner, and three interviews that he gave over the years. In one of these interviews, he was asked what compliment most annoyed him. He replied: "Honesty, conscience, humanity-you know, all the modern mouthwasnes." Yet, these qualities best describe the man who struggled so ardently to understand what it was to be simply...
...good as his word. And he was so successful at building a Texas copy of the school he considers one of the best in the world that Stanford took particular notice. Last week Stanford paid Pitzer the ultimate compliment: it brought him to Palo Alto to succeed President I.E. Wallace Sterling, 62, who is retiring after 18 years...
...State. "You have warned us that our social and political institutions show signs of congealing into unresponsive and bureaucratic establishments-you have caught our affluent society in the act of becoming a smug society." Speaking at Connecticut's Fairfield University, Lawyer Edward Bennett Williams paid students a high compliment. "Through the scientific genius of my generation," he said, "we have made the world a neighborhood. Now, through the moral and spiritual genius of yours, we will make it a brotherhood...
COLES: The book was described by one critic as "well-scrubbed." It was meant to be a compliment, but it's a terribly accurate and I think just criticism of the book. Those children emerge as well-scrubbed because I couldn't use some of the swear words I would have liked...
...poems, slipped in to compliment the critical articles, are partly responsible for Bogus' high quality. "California Plush" by graduate student Frank Bidart just misses being one of those six-page identity crisis -California -Cambridge poems; but Bidart's sincere, practically apologetic awkwardness saves it from banality. John L'Heureux seems a more accomplished poet. His "Three Awful Picnics" manipulates a playfully surreal death (of a man whose "head split open like a rotten cantaloupe and seven birds flew out") through three discordant, animated perspectives...