Word: enjoyments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...listening to the radio: ". . . Of all the things I enjoy not doing, not listening to the radio is my favorite. . . . Some programs are more fun not to listen to than others. For your non-listening pleasure I recommend Stella Dallas, Portia Faces Life and my old friend, Gabriel Heatter...
...Bethune, widely regarded as her race's First Lady, paid a flying birthday visit to San Francisco, where Mayor Roger Lapham and California's Attorney General Robert Kenny helped her celebrate. (She crowed happily: "These parties are getting more interracial every year-and for that reason I enjoy them more each year.") In Washington, 12,000 fans at a special Negro ball game in Griffith Stadium sang Let Me Call You Sweetheart to the absent guest of honor. In 38 other U.S. cities, her admirers remembered...
...workingmen morally obliged to join a union?" asked the exam. The priestly consensus: a qualified yes. "Certainly all those who enjoy benefits gained by a union are obliged to join and protect the welfare of themselves and others...
Doubtless a few special cases, including geniuses and college sophomores, enjoy the process; writers as a group have to drive themselves to it. As a group they have always been spiritual hypochondriacs, professional sufferers who manage -(frequently) to make a living out of their suffering. No one knows this better than Robert van Gelder, editor of the New York Times Book Review, who has interviewed dozens of authors during the past few years. About 90 of his interviews are now collected in Writers and Writing. Sample testimony...
Enrico de Nicola was a bachelor who loved books, the Bay of Naples, and peace to enjoy them both. When he had finally given in to a persistent telephone bell last week he asked angrily: "What is it? I was reading and sunbathing. Who is it that wants...