Word: habitants
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...best of Nicolson remains his eye for the actors around him. Churchill, he tells the reader, cries often, and has a "strange" habit, when speaking to Parliament, of passing "his hands up and down from groin to tummy." Charles de Gaulle, observed in his London exile, has effeminate hands, lacking muscle and arteries in them, but already in 1941 is heard yelling "France, c'est moi!" at Nicolson in the Savoy Hotel. "His arrogance and fascism annoy me," writes Nicolson, "but there is something like a fine retriever dog about his eyes." Laborite Clement Attlee looks "like a snipe...
...less fettered. Few of the 300 foreign correspondents who flooded into the country had trouble getting to one of the fronts in some military vehicle- helicopter, half-track or torpedo boat. Oth ers were shuttled to battle sites in a pair of tourist buses, which had a habit of getting lost in the desert. Israeli information officers joked with reporters, censored their copy perfunctorily, and often leaked news before it was officially released...
Though neighboring Yugoslavia has abolished visas altogether, the Albanian People's Republic continues to maintain a studiously calculated atmosphere of siege. It has revived the medieval habit of closing down for the night; the open hours are from 5 a.m. to 5 p.m. The ever-present Albanian guide, reading from a slightly greasy notebook, explains to visitors that the electric border fence is there to keep Albanian animals from straying into Yugoslavia...
...good fortune, corporate contributions to the arts seem to be increasing. Still, many companies, leary of the baiters who show up at annual meetings to knock any corporate activity beyond the profit statement, refuse to talk about it. General Motors and Chrysler make a habit of keeping their giving under wraps...
...arbitration" committee which meets this week at Radcliffe to make recommendations about the house system is like one of those loftily named advisory committees President Johnson is in the habit of appointing. The committee has no real function, the issue at stake has grown tiresome, and each side knows what the other thinks before the meetings begin. Because the recommendations are not binding on President Bunting and the College Council, they--in the end--will probably overrule any proposals that are not in keeping with their own ideas...