Word: friendships
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wells once confessed that he made him feel like a bankrupt undertaker; Classicist Middleton Murry cowered as Harris roared: "God's great fist! You, Murry, wrote this drivel about Paradise Lost?" But Harris befriended Oscar Wilde-though he did not share Oscar's homosexual bent-and the friendship bolstered his social success. It was a time when conversation was still considered a fine art, and Wilde and Harris were two of the greatest conversational artists in London, sought by hostesses for the wit and charm of their anecdotage...
...lost his physical fitness. He has lost his job as a columnist. He has left his wife Mary, an odd mother-hen type who needed Peter's boozed-up dependence on her as much as he needed booze. The only thing he has not lost is the enduring friendship of Jon Baker, a fellow booze-fighter of yesteryear who has become an apostle of Alcoholics Anonymous...
...carnation-strewn show of affection for Dwight Eisenhower and the people he represents. Somehow-with flashing smile that never faded, with dignity that never truckled, with simple words that went down as well in Argentina as they do in Abilene-the President got across the message of creative friendship and collective responsibility in the name of the long-misunderstood "Colossus of the North...
Meet the Queen. Julian Myrick started out in the insurance business as a $25-a-week applications clerk in 1898, soon struck up a friendship with another clerk, an athlete, organist and composer from Yale named Charles Ives. In 1907 they established their own office, soon were selling nearly $2,000,000 a year...
...pointed talk about Latin American aspirations and the need for U.S. aid, and he countered with some pointed observations of his own-about the peril of tyranny by subversion and the necessity of helping one's self. All the frank talk, the cheers and the sensation of renewed friendship left no doubt that Ike's remarkable sally into personal diplomacy was having the same telling effect in Latin America that it had in the lands of Europe, North Africa and Asia...