Word: friendships
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Artist Boris Chaliapin went to Cambridge to paint the cover portrait, and according to Julia it was the "beginning of a life friendship." After a sitting Boris would trade paintbrushes for Julia's pots and pans, and concoct some of his favorite Russian recipes: shashlik and a peasant soup made with chicken giblets, dill pickles and brine...
...Episcopalians because of Pike's counseling and friendship, one of us a former Congregationalist, who did not believe enough, the other a former Roman Catholic, who was called on to believe too much. Pike is a great mind, a great spirit and a great Christian in the fullest sense of that special word...
Kiesinger also, played up the fact that he had proved himself to be a good democrat and a tireless advocate of Franco-German friendship. That seemed good enough for most Germans. Both opposition parties pledged not to attack him for the Nazi ties. The German press seemed to agree with the mass-circulation tabloid Bild Zeitung that "Kiesinger has to blame himself for nothing more than youthful error...
Neither Buell (rhymes with duel) nor his wife had close ties with Colorado Woman's until 1959, when they struck up a friendship with the school's President Eugene Ellsworth Dawson. Colorado Woman's has 50 well-trimmed acres in a top residential area of Denver, draws its 1,037 students from all over the nation. Until Buell's gift, it had an endowment of less than $2,000,000. It plans to use income from the new trust mainly to improve its faculty...
Nevertheless, the stories on balance are often captivating, and two of them alone make the book well worth reading. The best is the title story, which tells of the deep friendship between a testy old Spanish fisherman and an Albanian sailor, neither of whom ever learns to speak the other's language. In Life Is an Operetta, Ustinov uses his expertise to write a deceptively simple account of a Hungarian singer who will linger in memory as the quintessential Hungarian female on the make...