Word: esteeming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Adverse criticism has so far not inhibited Zeffirelli's energy, esteem or income. His salary for Romeo and Juliet was $50,000 plus a hefty percentage, and he will make even more from his new projects, notably a movie of Brecht's Galileo, starring Rod Steiger. At his bachelor villa near Rome, Zeffirelli remains the low-pressure gran signore, entertaining ten or twelve friends for lunch, inhaling gusts of Winston smoke from fingertip-held cigarettes. His braggadocio extends even to his genealogy. "One day my father showed up with an armful of documents," he recalls. "He finally...
...previous issue, U.S. Senators got their pictures in the magazine only because they happen to frequent the Senate restaurant presided over by a Negro maitre d'hotel, Robert Parker Jr. Said the story: "Even for Senator Richard Russell (D., Ga.), who is not noted for his high esteem for Negroes, 'there is only one maitre d' in the U.S.-Parker...
...admirer wrapped himself up in a flame-and-gold package as a "present to Mr. Gropius." Harvard's favorite-son candidate, Architect Walter Gropius, had just returned from an 85th-birthday visit to his native Germany, and his disciples in Cambridge were not to be outdone in their esteem. Said Gropius, touched: "This is the grand finale to two weeks of birthday parties...
SCHOLARSHIPS. Small scholarships are usually offered to middle-class students whom the college wants to recruit and who it fears will go elsewhere if they don't receive some token of the college's esteem...
Throughout its long democratic history, Britain has seldom had a more unpopular government than that of Prime Minister Harold Wilson's - or one so entrenched despite its low standing. After months during which its vote and its esteem from Britons have steadily declined, the Labor Party last week suffered its most extensive and embarrassing defeat...