Word: compliments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Early in this book, the author reports that Poet Robert Lowell remarked to him: "Norman, I really think you are the best journalist in America." Mailer refused to take it as a compliment. "Well, Cal," he replied, "there are days when I think of myself as being the best writer in America...
...their own problems as legislators. Even Wilbur Mills, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee-who is about as antisocialist as a Congressman and an Arkansan can get-concedes that Cohen has always been willing "to compromise when compromises have to be made." That is perhaps the highest compliment Mills could pay anyone...
...Ultimate Compliment. In addition to longer-range rockets, the Communists now have a Russian-made close-in com bat rocket whose striking power is so great that it can penetrate ten inches of armor plating at a range of up to 550 yards. Variously called the RPG-7 or B-41, it was developed by the Soviets from the famed German World War II Panzerfaust. It weighs only 20 lbs., has a special sighting device for accuracy, and gives the common Communist fighter the ability to knock a hole in the most heavily armored U.S. tank...
...ordinary rifleman into a machine gunner. Some firearm experts consider it superior to the U.S. M16, which fires a smaller bullet and has an unfortunate tendency to jam. Though the AK-47 is heavier and heats up faster than the M16, U.S. combat troopers sometimes pay it the ultimate compliment by picking it up and using it themselves when they find one on a battlefield...
...that turns on the mind's eye. Following a recent performance in Manhattan of John Butler's Ceremony, two flower children stopped the choreographer on the street. "You Butler?" said one. "Saw your ballet. You tell it like it is, man." Says Butler: "It was the best compliment I've ever been paid...