Word: enjoys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...evidently wants people to think that he isn't a politician at all. Anyone who meets him is impressed by his low-keyed good nature and with what could be an almost deliberate effort to be unpretentious. Spong seems to enjoy telling stories about the Senate or about his campaigns in Virginia more than analyzing his role in changing the political structure of the state...
...three Beatle wives, Paul McCartney's girl friend and George Harrison's sister-in-law-as they take private meditation sessions with His Holiness on his rooftop porch, or sit down to vegetarian meals in the communal dining room. Just how much longer they will stay to enjoy such back-water bliss is uncertain. Though the course lasts for three months and confers on those who complete it a sort of guru status of their own, the Beatles' manager hinted last week that they will leave in three weeks. These days, even holy men have their dropouts...
...stories little more than glorified True Confessions pap-orphan servant girls (Lummox, 1923), the secret love of a married man (Back Street, 1930), mother love (Imitation of Life, 1933). But her novels sold many millions of copies, and magazines paid $70,000 for the serial rights. "What success I enjoy," she once said, "comes from my inner convictions, which are little soul-tapers lighting the way." No story could hold a candle to her own 37-year marriage to the late pianist Jacques S. Danielson. Bedeviled by her disapproving parents, the couple were wed in secret in 1915, maintained separate...
...month, a lieutenant earns 100 times more, and a rear admiral 400 times that much. There is an additional discrimination that probably is due to the Soviet Union's problem with alcoholism. While officers may tipple in moderation onshore?and those of the Black Sea Fleet may even enjoy white wine at meals?Soviet sailors are forbidden at all times to drink on either land or sea. From all indications, the order is surprisingly well obeyed...
...beginning to appreciate Borges' inventive "fictions" and enchanting Norton lectures with an introduction to the remarkable personality behind the magic. Wilson's technique is to remain unobtrusive, to give Borges free rein. The two quickly establish a lively, productive rapport (Wilson: "My next question may be irrelevant." Borges: "I enjoy irrelevant questions.... The answers are irrelevant, so the questions have to be irrelevant also...