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...proud Bengalis are unlikely to give in. A warm and friendly but volatile people whose twin passions are politics and poetry, they have nurtured a gentle and distinctive culture of their own. Conversation???adda?is the favorite pastime, and it is carried on endlessly under the banyan trees in the villages or in the coffeehouses of Dacca...
...over?but not for me. Gliding offstage, I felt powered as if by bottomless reservoir of adrenaline. The program had sped by much too fast. Smitten, I hungered to go back. Missed cues, memory lapses, technical distractions, the guest's curve balls, the occasional fumbling efforsts at easy conversation???all these had brought terrors, but they they were terrors shared by dare-devil drivers and talk-show hosts alike: they only heightened the thrill. I understood, too, the performer's need for approval. I accosted total strangers backstage, demanding of them line-by-line opinions of the program, insistently playing...
Upshot of two and one-half hours of stimulating but sometimes diffuse conversation???for even the Sage of Adelphi Terrace can be unclear?is that the young lovers (Romney Brent and Peg Entwhistle) decide to risk it and become man and wife, and the one flesh...
...book is mostly conversational and falls into the conversational pitfalls of protraction, repetition and ranting. But for a long time it is good conversation???high, wide and exciting...
...magazine. Holmes called it The Atlantic Monthly. In a large measure Holmes "made" the magazine and it "made" him, through the publication of his essays, The Autocrat at the Breakfast Table, followed by The Professor, etc., and The Poet, etc. In these he exhibited his wit?noted in conversation???and his liberal opinions...