Word: courteousness
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Jarrell's sudden death hasn't been as anonymous, and the Committee of memorialists has contrived to write something far more elaborate than the "anything will do" he asked for as an epitaph. Buried in this courteous and often adoring book are kernels of the familiar sad story of the American artist that poured out in Jarrell's poems. He was recovering or perhaps failing to recover from a nervous breakdown that October in North Carolina. "When I last saw him, not long before his death," Arendt writes, "the laughter was almost gone and he was ready to admit defeat...
Councillor Maher repeatedly asked the witnesses if they planned to "join the Hanoi line by demonstrating to shut down the Pentagon on October 21." After laughter drowned one such question, Maher requested the spectators to "be so courteous as to listen, even if they won't support our country...
...much aware of the possibilities created by his star status, and he has chosen to utilize them for the benefit of the anti-war cause. "Everyone doesn't have the podium I have to speak from," he says. "My audiences may come out of sheer curiosity, but they are courteous and they stay to listen...
...last day alive, a day pressured by exams, Hall got a speeding ticket from a traffic cop who recalls him as "very courteous." He conferred normal ly with an English professor, then walked into a grocery store, phoned a girl in Mississippi he barely knew and asked her to marry him. "I am intoxicated with love," Hall said. He began crying and laughing; a policeman was called, and drove him home. Later, Hall spoke wildly to his landlady, Mrs. Aline Johnson, and started kicking the door between their apartments. Shortly be fore midnight, Mrs. Johnson called the police, and three...
...enactment." In 1952, James Hill and his family were held captive for 19 hours by three escaped convicts in their suburban home near Philadelphia. The Hills later told newsmen that the convicts had been completely courteous. After police caught the fugitives, killing two of them in the process, the Hills moved to Connecticut and shunned further publicity. But in 1955, Playwright Joseph Hayes dramatized a similar ordeal of the "Hilliard" family in The Desperate Hours. In the Hayes version, the convicts beat Mr. Hilliard and subjected his daughter to a verbal sexual insult...