Word: dog
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Handsome Bearing. Some high-ranking U.S. officials remained unconvinced by her arguments; they feel that India may be trying to encourage the disintegration of Pakistan. But as one Western diplomat put it recently, "Pakistan is a drowning dog. India doesn't have to push its head under." Nonetheless, Mrs. Gandhi's handsome bearing, forthright manner and ranking as Prime Minister of the world's largest democracy (pop. 547 million) won her new friends in Washington-and new support. Fred Harris of Oklahoma introduced a resolution in the Senate urging that the U.N. Security Council call an emergency...
...depressing. The organization is pusillanimous, says Brown. Caught between Washington and broadcasting politics, it seeks to preserve rather than to alter. Nor can much be expected from changes at the networks. The small affiliate stations still have the right to refuse what they find disagreeable. This tail-wagging-the-dog situation curbs most attempts at quality or daring. Nor does Public Broadcasting offer a sanguine alternative. The networks tolerate it as Their Majesty's Loyal Opposition-as long as it retains its obsequious manner. Should it ever capture more than a snippet of the vast audience, broadcast lobbyists...
...This is what I say: I would not wish to a dog or to a snake, to the most low and misfortunate creature of the earth--I would not wish to any of them what I have had to suffer for things that I am not guilty of. But my conviction is that I have suffered for things that I am guilty of. I am suffering because I am a radical and indeed I am a radical; I have suffered because I was an Italian, and indeed I am an Italian; I have suffered more for my family...
...Royal electric. "I used to be able to get down 2,000 words a day," he laments. "Now I'm happy if I can do 1,000." If he is still in the thinking stage, however, he sits in an armchair, his pipe rack beside him, and a dog or cat on his lap. Before arriving at his usual labyrinthine mystery-style plot-he is "awfully keen" on Agatha Christie and Rex Stout-he jots down something like 400 pages of notes. "I do like a book with an elaborate plot," he says. Old age? Piffle! "As long...
...facts of his life aren't as important, of course, as the way Greene remembers or reacts to them, and the way the young Greene responded to them. For example: 'The first thing I remember is sitting in a pram at the top of a hill with a dead dog lying at my feet." This is the kind of thing Greene remembers and chooses to relate. The very matter-of-factness of its horror changes a dull life into one full of terror and hidden meaning...