Word: genially
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...schools are too foolishly over-administered to successfully nurture either reading and writing or the ability to cope humanely with the complex choices of modern life. But unlike most apocalyptic critics, Herndon sees no easy solution. He proceeds, moreover, by meandering parable rather than polemic, and uses a ruefully genial tone of voice that might have come from Mark Twain or Kurt Vonnegut. As a result, he is just about the only education reformer alive whose writing could be (and should be) profitably and pleasurably read aloud at the family dinner table...
...platform, Hoving and the civic dignitaries droned out their genial platitudes while Vaillancourt waded to and fro beneath them, imprinting more QUEBEC LIBRES on his fountain. Now and then, he advanced to the mikes and cameras at the pool's rim to explain in loud and broken English his rage at "compromises," which, he claimed, Halprin and the Redevelopment Agency had pressed on him. Defacement? "I am not defacing my sculpture." Did he repudiate it? "No, no. It's a joy to make a free statement. This fountain is dedicated to all freedom. Free Quebec! Free East Pakistan...
...banquet committee, formed and chaired by genial William Lee, head of the Chicago Federation of Labor, was well prepared for ravenous onslaught. Indeed, the supply list suggested not so much a banquet as the formation of Democratic labor battalions to march on Republican strongholds. For the guests' delectation, there were 11,000 filet mignons, 3,500 lbs. of potatoes and 1,800 lbs. of carrots. The appetizer was 2,200 lbs. of fruit cocktail. Desserts: 11,000 créme de menthe parfaits. Lest throats become parched, 2,010 qt. of liquor and 130 cases of beer were readied...
...indulgent father. Despite superficial pragmatism, he never quite cracks the code that relentlessly governs life around him: that the truth is always the opposite of what it appears to be. For Farragan every encounter ends in shock; every shock releases in the author an almost Dickensian, genial savagery...
...afternoon's incongruities began with Teller's entrance into the room full of chatting, genial conventioneers-flanked by six bodyguards, apparently in response to threats of violence against him. But what followed was anything but violent. When he rose to speak, two S. E. S. P. A. men simply mounted the far end of the stage and stood silently, holding up the first of a series of placards introducing "The War Criminal: A Short Play by Edward Teller...