Word: dears
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...guests were born, and he was eager to spin yarns out of his past. Inevitably, he remembered his 1914 interview with Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm of Germany, some three months after the prince's father, Kaiser Wilhelm, had entered World War I: "Willie said to me, 'My dear Wiegand, you must tell Papa that we have lost the war. Every time I attempt to tell him, he gets furious...
Miller somehow creates the impression of mixing up Christ and Krishnamurti, Huysmans and Mme. Blavatsky. He can write an outburst such as this-"I would like to penetrate up to the eyes to make them waggle ferociously, dear crazy metallurgical eyes ... the radiating light that carries off the fecundating seeds of the stars"-and mean it as a hymn to Dostoevsky. Actually, it has as much to do with the Russian's tragic art and exact moral theorems as it has with lepidopterology or philately; the only thing it says is that Miller is excited in the presence...
...Washington. Visiting the White House in his turn, Prime Minister Harold Macmillan swiftly lost whatever misgivings he had had at parting from Old Friend Dwight Eisenhower and was reportedly convinced that Kennedy "possessed skills in abundance.'' France's lordly Charles de Gaulle hailed Kennedy as his "dear partner...
...Nobel-prizewinning Physicist Sir James Chadwick, 70 (Church of England), to Hideki Yukawa, a Buddhist Nobelman from Japan.* Each man will receive a silver-gilt chain and medallion, and each will rate the Vatican title of excellency. From the Pope will come parchment proclamations addressing the Catholic scientists as "Dear Sir," the non-Catholics as "Famous Gentleman." And the varied salutations will be eloquent testimony to the Pontifical Academy's current catholicity of choice...
...took me to his beautiful old house on the Rhine which he bought for his retirement in 1937! All his neighbors had gathered on this beautiful April Sunday to applaud him as we stepped out of the car. He gave a little speech introducing me as his dear friend, Mr. Acheson, so they clapped gently...