Word: friend
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Czechs are the unhappiest people in Europe, and their sadness is fresh, tearful and utterly pathetic. One of the few old friends who came to see me came only because, she said, 'I'm in so much trouble already that seeing you doesn't matter.' An Action Committee had put her out of her job with an export firm and her husband had lost his with the Ministry. She had been informed that they would be given new jobs 'according to their physical abilities. Another friend, a professor, tearfully expressed what is perhaps the underlying...
Last week the Kremlin still had sent no signal. Thorez, anticipating a crashing electoral defeat for the Reds in Italy, made his own decision. He plumped for the detente. To a friend he explained: "Marty and I are different sorts of people. There is less difference between a revolutionary and a nonrevolutionary than there is between two revolutionaries...
...still has a quick eye for good-looking women, and an obvious attraction to them. He makes a point of telling friends that he never looks in mirrors, even to shave, says, "I hate my face." Friends who went with him to see the first showing of The Hymn of the Nations, the movie he made for OWI during the war, said he looked away self-consciously whenever his image came on the screen. But he dresses fastidiously, is visibly pleased when a friend remarks on a new coat or suit (most of which he still has made...
...humble, unassuming, courteous-and, off the podium, he usually is. Toscanini the musician seems to be almost as fearful an object to him as it does to others. After an explosive day of ranting, raving, stomping and swearing in rehearsal, he will sometimes sidle up to an intimate friend at a party, and say with downcast eyes: "I have a bad character." Most of his friends know the right response. "No, Maestro, you don't have a bad character; you just have a bad temper." But he will continue: "I was bad. I don't know what makes...
Sometimes, on awful occasions, he brings the other Toscanini to a party. Then he glowers in a corner, refuses to talk, turns away food and drinks and generally casts a pall over everything. At one party, a waggish friend suggested hanging a sign around his neck, "Do not feed the Maestro." Another evening was saved only when a nonartistic friend, arriving late, went over to the sulking Toscanini, slapped him on the back and said: "Did you see that Louis-Walcott fight?-worst fight I ever saw." Toscanini brightened immediately. Ramming his fist into his hand, he shouted, "He couldn...