Word: compliments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...full compliment of police and University officials should be present at every mixer...
...such practical counsel as how to wear tails and what to do about loud brass (ignore them or they will play louder), Swarowsky subjects his charges to a withering barrage of criticism. "Stop boxing," he grumbles, or "Stop moving your fanny; I'm not teaching ballet." Even a compliment may be prefaced with "That was the worst thing I have seen in my whole life." Such treatment, says Swarowsky, "strengthens their character and teaches them how to gain the upper hand of the orchestra...
Attractive women, however, almost invariably appreciate him?and vice versa. Manhattan Freelance Writer (and Jet Setter) Gloria Steinem finds him "overpowering." Actress Angie Dickinson describes him as "fascinating and funny." Galbraith's yet-to-be-published India diaries return the compliment. "She has fair, pure skin," he cooed after sitting next to Angie on a transcontinental jet in 1961, "blonde to vaguely reddish hair, merry eyes and a neat, unstarved body." Despite his obviously observant eye, Miss Dickinson, who visited the subcontinent in 1962, doubts that he has any "serious romances?or any romances...
...this time, maybe. Evidently alarmed by the angry charges of anti-Semitism that followed his attack on Israel at last month's press conference, De Gaulle wrote a three-page justification of his remarks to former Israeli Premier David Ben-Gurion. He had really meant it as a compliment, said le grand Charles, when he described the Jews as "an elite, sure of themselves and domineering." De Gaulle likes people who fit that description...
...horizon-addicts and future-fans" of his time, Day-Lewis, in rebellion against his strict curate father, flirted briefly with Communism; he now recalls his stint as a party educator as "a signal instance of the blind leading the shortsighted." Protest verse did not sell, however, until a chance compliment from T. E. Lawrence was printed in a newspaper column; it caused a run on his first three books. His 20 poetry volumes since then have all sold well...