Word: embarrassments
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...routine context, probably all eleven members would have voted against them. But when the question was posed of indicting the U.S. alone, the U.S.'s friends rallied around. They were not going to stand for Russia, chief disturber of the world's peace, hypocritically trying to embarrass the U.S. "We blundered and they know it; they think we're clumsy and a bit silly, like a great big hairy-chested fellow with a high voice; but they like us," remarked one member of the U.S. delegation...
Little Mary Sunshine. Despite a title that would embarrass Oscar Hammerstein. the show is redeemingly satirical, has turned into one of the most surprising phenomena in off-Broadway history. Running since last autumn to capacity audiences, Little Mary is sold out till the end of the month, plays to theater parties and matinees in an enlarged seating capacity (from 199 to 299 seats), has its own "original cast" album (Capitol...
Secretary of State Christian Herter decided against arrest and prosecution, said Nixon, because it might embarrass Guest Khrushchev. Instead, the evidence was taken quietly to U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold. and within days Kirilyuk and his family were on their way home. There were no arrests, no speeches, no recriminations. Total score of Soviet diplomats known to have been kicked out by the U.S. in the past ten years: 15-eight from the Soviet embassy in Washington, seven from...
...describing these tiny embarrass ments, contests of will, vain attempts to please. Author Sarraute puts them under a microscope and painstakingly focuses and refocuses it till they are seen absolutely clearly but magnified a hundred fold. The character-specimens are so hypersensitive to each passing emotion that in real life they would probably need to seek asylum - or take up writing New Realist novels on their own. But Author Sarraute's skillful pressing on the neurotic nerve is bound to awaken shocks of recognition in the persevering reader, suggesting, among other things, that no man is a hero...
...bullying bantam of a man (barely 5 ft. 5 in. without his 2-in. elevator heels) who had great gifts, a natural swagger, and a voice variously compared to a Russian choir, the organ at Westminster Abbey and the rustling leaves of a brass artichoke. Born to enchant and embarrass, bewitch and betray, seduce and swindle a whole Who's Who of famous friends. Harris was never forgotten by those who met him-and rarely forgiven...