Word: guests
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Vehemently denying that he was a Red Chinese agent, Singh was careful not to criticize the Chinese Communists ("After all, I was their guest"), talked, instead, of making Nepal the "Switzerland of the Far East," i.e., neutral. He saw that there was no future in Nepalese politics without Indian backing, began insisting that India was Nepal's "best friend," and asked the Nepalese to be "more grateful" for Indian economic aid. He was invited to New Delhi and had a chat with Nehru. Nehru laconically concluded: "Not a Communist-just a freebooter...
...accomplishments at Aachen have brought Sawallisch permanent bids from the Berlin Municipal Opera and from Hamburg (he has not made up his mind) and invitations to guest-conduct most of the great orchestras of Europe. The Vienna State Opera and the San Francisco Opera both want him as their guest. And in Germany he has built a personal following so rapidly that last year the Berlin Philharmonic did not even bother to advertise his sold-out guest appearances...
Broken Commandments. Such puns often rile some viewers into protests. But the Last Word puts up happily with Brown's observation on slurred speech ("To slur is human") or Guest Panelist S. J. Perelman's near classic, "I've got Bright's disease-and he's got mine.'' What riles the audience more is Scholar Evans' zest for breaking old grammatical commandments. Evans accepts "it is me," prefers "ain't" to the awkward "am I not," thinks it fine to occasionally split infinitives, regards prepositions as good things to end sentences...
...honored enough to behave like one of his own characters, British Satirist Evelyn (The Loved One) Waugh showed up as honor guest at a London literary luncheon bearing an elegantly Victorian, 2-ft.-long ear trumpet. Waugh, not widely known to be hard of hearing, waggled his antique radar about happily while chatting with table companions, clowned his listening gear with a flourish when an old enemy, Punch Editor Malcolm Muggeridge rose to speak, crowed later: "I did not listen to a word he said. I do not like that man. We met once in Africa...
...wanted one of the great artists of this country to do a suggestion of me, which would also be a great painting. I settled on Ivan as one of the outstanding artists in the U.S." Some of Mrs. Block's friends were less pleased. Growled one guest: "Looks like a dead woman...