Word: hand
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...campus where strangers walking by each other rarely exchange greetings, blacks are conspicuous because of their gregariousness. George Curry, who attends Knoxville (Tenn.) College, said, " Wit blacks they go by, and shake your hand and ask, 'What's happening tonight, brother...
...Heavy Hand. Thos. Cook & Son is now trying to change that image. This fall, through an exclusive link-up with British European Airways, it will initiate "Silver Wing Tours," offering a choice of low-cost package tours to no fewer than 97 vacation spots. The minimum price will be $89.60 for a 14-day trip from London to Mallorca and back, including lodging, meals and free information that can be gained from Cook's expert agency. Cook's expects to pick up 250,000 to 300,000 customers for such inclusive tours...
...year through 420 offices around the world, Cook's saw its profits dawdle along during the early 1960s and by last year they were down to a mere $2.2 million on a turnover of $378 million. At least part of this sluggishness can be ascribed to the heavy hand of the British government, which has owned the company since 1948. Tory pressure is already building up in Parliament to return Cook's to private ownership...
Palpable Authenticity. Behrman's ending is an embarrassing cliche, but his mastery of dialogue shines on every page, and the ease with which he routes characters on and off the scene amounts to sleight of hand. But what gives the book its real fascination is its palpable authenticity. Behrman has collected people and experiences like a connoisseur. He has known the rich, the beautiful and the talented, and he appears to have put them into his novel as vividly and intimately as in a diary. Freud, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Arnold Schoenberg and Irving Thalberg make cameo...
...poetry and assumes a new life as a bartender at Piggy's Sty. But try as he may, he cannot deny his muse, and she accompanies him on a desperate flight to Tangier after the murderer of a pop singer has pushed his smoking gun into bystander Enderby's hand. Disguised as an Arab beggar, Enderby plans a real crime--the murder of Rawliffe, a fellow poet who has stolen the plot of Enderby's magnum opus and made a movie from it. But the dying Rawcliffe's pure cynicism is so eminently pitiable that Enderby instead becomes a fast...