Word: friendships
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gulliver's Travels, Swift describes the "struldbrugs," the unhappy old men & women who could not die but were "uncapable of friendship, and dead to all natural affection . . . The least miserable among them appear to be those who turn to dotage, and entirely lose their memories...
...great friendship between men 31 years apart lasted 21 years-until the day Boswell received a letter from Johnson's physician, telling how Johnson died. But for Boswell he never died. He once dreamed that Johnson came back to earth and told him how terrible it was to die. "There, sir," replied Boswell, "is the difference between us. You have got that happily over...
...change the Communist fist into the open hand of simulated friendship, as rapidly as Moscow does it, requires not only political spryness but a kind of unabashed acceptance of duplicity and falsehood, so deeply ingrained that it becomes almost a reflex action, like breathing. In Paris last week the Communists, without visible embarrassment, were showing the fist and the open hand at the same time. Reason: the French satraps had been ordered to help along Moscow's new peace offensive, but their old orders to stir up trouble and sabotage EGA had not been canceled. TIME'S Paris...
...Vanya": "What has happened? Why did you not answer my last two letters? Perhaps you are tired of our friendship . . . Oh, Vanechka! Apparently you have fallen in love with someone else, and she prohibits your continuation of our comradely correspondence. In that case, I can tell you only one thing-real comrades shouldn't act that way. If there is any trace of the old feeling . . . then write...
...yards for a touchdown on the first play from scrimmage, praised end Art Hyde for his great block of safety man Nadherny . . . "The play was just an ordinary sweep," Moffle explained, "and then all of a sudden everything opened up." . . . "I hope this is the start of a long friendship," Coach Valpey said to Hickman at the post-game press conference . . . "Well, I'm certainly doing my part," Hickman drawled...