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Relations between the two women are cordial but by no means warm...
...middle-class background, her studies at Brandeis and in Germany and--lamentably--her physical attractiveness probably have much to do with why Davis is afforded a more cordial reception than many of her comrades in struggle. In addition, although Davis is a revolutionary, dedicated to the overthrow of the capitalist oppressors, she does not allow her appeals to the masses to become clogged with abstract rhetoric and petty haranguing over who will lead the revolution, which of the diverse Communist or Socialist groups is right, or any of the other questions that fragment many Marxist organizations. Her immediate struggle...
With 100 little winks, grimaces and ha-has, Slocum describes (and mercilessly redescribes) himself and his life in a flat pattern of total recall. He is a reasonably handsome man in his 40s -wavy hair that is thinning, a paunch that is growing. In the office he is "cordial and considerate to just about everybody." He has "this wretched habit" of acquiring the characteristics of the last person he has been talking to-a stutter, a tic, even a limp...
Even before détente, Russian and American scientists were trading views, visits and even data. But the cordial atmosphere is occasionally clouded by acrimony. Last week, for the third time in a decade, the scientific cold war between the University of California's Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory and the Soviet Union's Joint Institute for Nuclear Research at Dubna, near Moscow, erupted anew. As before, the argument was over who had been first to manufacture the latest manmade* element...
...Grendel's atmosphere is its simplicity. It doesn't have the European landscape posters that other easteries find so necessary to their identities. Grendel's exudes a European ambience without even trying. The music is light and tends toward the classical, and the waiters and waitresses are generally cordial...