Word: creaming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...colleagues are ambivalent about his thought." Riesman captures insights so true that his weaving them into a fabric of vague theory seems inescapably right--yet he expounds a point of view rather than an encompassing hypothesis, and his theories have a habit of melting like a sweet, decorated ice cream...
Vienna in the 1920s-with its coffeehouse society making a last whipped-cream stand against change, with the Franz Josef heel-clicks just receding and the Nazi jackboots faintly approaching-is both scene and protagonist of Heimito von Doderer's two-volume, half-million word novel The Demons, which was 25 years in the writing and two years in translation. The American edition contains a publisher's list of characters numbering 142, with 31 starred as principals...
...very popular President. Nor did it hurt when Frondizi showed himself highly human by ducking out of his hotel one evening, taking a taxi over to Broadway and 46th Street. He dropped into a cafeteria, ordered a steak and a beer, then strolled on Broadway, licking an ice-cream cone and rubbernecking like any tourist...
...watch the first-night show; many lingered till midnight at their sidewalk stations, peeping through the glass sides of the block-long building as the crowd inside washed down cookies with Rhineland champagne. A fleet of taxis and Mercedes limousines flowed onto Bismarckstrasse, off RichardWagner-Platz, to deliver the cream of West Berlin society, the entire West Berlin Senate, West Berlin Mayor Willy Brandt, Federal President Heinrich Lübke, retired U.S. General Lucius Clay, and 21 assorted ambassadors up from Bonn for the occasion. But for all the glitter, it was a subdued affair as opera openings go. There...
...Broun lent him her palatial estate, Tregaron, which once belonged to her father, the late Ambassador Joseph E. Davies. Assorted objets d'art, classy furniture and rugs? Top-name families and museums donated décor to the tune of $250,000 worth. Extras for the ball? The cream of Washington society, as well as some of the milk, volunteered. A five-room suite in the Mayflower? Democratic National Chairman John Bailey offered his, then found himself virtually evicted. A correspondents' dinner scene? Real-life correspondents were glad to oblige. Only when Preminger asked...