Word: farawayness
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...quite deliver. Brando as the gambler has a nylon slickness and the right occupational crimp around the eyes. He dances, too, in one wonderful piece of mambo-jumbo, with a kind of animal rapture that moviegoers will want to see more of but he sings in a faraway tenor that sometimes tends to be flat...
Farmers traveled to the scene of the strike from nearby desert settlements just to dip their hands into the oil spreading out over the reddish earth. "Blessed be this day," a group of them prayed. In faraway Manhattan, Israeli oil stocks boomed (see BUSINESS...
...spent its lien on philosophical fashion. Sartre, after writing one of the most effective anti-Communist plays (Dirty Hands), lapsed into the security, not of the church, but of the Communist Party line. His most gifted colleague, gentle, ailing Novelist Camus (The Plague), parted from him. "For a faraway city of which I am not sure, I will not strike the faces of my brothers," he wrote, and disowned Communism...
Maneuvering amid the personalities and protocol of sticky Washington last week was an open-faced, roundly smiling, improbable-looking man in a gaung baung (gauze turbanlike cap with side bow), ingyi (short-waisted, high-necked jacket) and longyi (skirt). Improbably, for a potentate from a faraway land, he came bearing thoughtful gifts: a pint of his blood for a U.S. hospital; a silver gong suspended between ivory elephant tusks for the President; a check for $5,000 for distressed families of G.I.'s killed or incapacitated in the liberation of his country, Burma, during World...
About the shining hour when Molotov was positioning his head into a ten-gallon 'hat in Cheyenne, a second sensational gesture of amiability was areadying in faraway Red China. Time for lotus and light, the Communists evidently concluded from the extraordinary demeanor of Big Brother; time to show the impressionables and the skeptics that Red China too was making headway toward cooperation (and toward such long-sought objectives as U.S. diplomatic recognition and membership...