Word: compliments
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...most of whom sound so solemn and professional as to suggest that England is raising a generation of literary critics. But there are also many signs that Eliot can still stir the young. A 15-year-old girl named Penelope Hodges pays the poet a compliment that may please Old Possum more than all his other honors. Writes Penelope: "T.S. Eliot's poetry affects me keenly, and in a completely different manner from anything I have ever known, because it is literally honest...
...Mormons Melvin and Loujean Nimer, there was no finer compliment. Since the autumn day in 1946 when Melvin hurried home from the Navy to Orem, Utah, and married his high school sweetheart, a nice family and a happy, secure family life had been their goals. Melvin got a pharmacy degree, decided to switch to medicine, went back to medical school at the University of Utah. Loujean helped out their budget by working as a secretary, did her housework nights while Melvin studied and first baby Melvin Jr. slept. After Melvin graduated, the family moved to Seattle where he interned...
...rapidly is Protestantism spreading that the Vatican has paid it the compliment of being seriously concerned. Pope Pius lists "four mortal perils" that are threatening the Catholic Church in Latin America. Among them, "Protestant invasion" ranked high...
...Last week Cat Brown got two other kinds of dispatches. In his letter to President Eisenhower about why-not-get-together-at-a-parley-at-the-summit, Khrushchev called Cat Brown a lunatic. Brown considered this a compliment. Three days later, Brown learned that at year's end he will get a fourth star and command of NATO's Southern Europe command based in Naples...
...most gorgeous thing I've ever seen. But, I mean, it's even nicer than our house." Near her, a trim, wavy-haired man gravely replied: "Thank you, madam." For Norman Tishman, 56, president of Manhattan's Tishman Realty & Construction Co., the compliment was no surprise; his company had planned the building to be the most luxurious cooperative apartment house in Los Angeles, with some units costing...