Word: helloing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Many of the books are written in the first person and carry with them the tang and immediacy of confessions. France's most successful novel last year was Bonjour Tristesse (Hello Sadness), which will be published in the U.S. this month. In one season its talented, 18-year-old author, Francoise Sagan, became a celebrity, and her book's haunting title became part of the French language. Author Sagan's lucid young heroine leads a freewheeling existence on the Riviera with her freewheeling father, until one of his mistresses tries to marry him. The girl...
...Greeks have a word for emigres who, once poverty-stricken, return to visit their native land flush with the prosperity of half a lifetime in the U.S. They call them heelobowie, a rough approximation of "hello boy." In many a Greek village, the returning heelobowie ranks almost as a patron saint; each village strives to outdo its neighbors in providing a lavish welcome for him, and even after his return to the land of his adoption, legends of his largesse live on among the villagers...
...moment he stepped into the cabin of his crane, no one talked to him; all around, the 300 men he worked with in the foundry of the Staveley Iron and Chemical Co. chatted and joshed with each other, but to Hewitt they spoke not a word, not even hello. It was almost as though his working day were spent in solitary confinement...
...gets it, but nobody can explain it. A mild-voiced, crewcut, anonymous sort of a man, he says: "The trouble with me is, people don't remember who I am. I guess I don't make a good impression. When I go to a party, nobody says hello; but when I leave, everybody says goodbye...
...unseat Democratic Congressman Byron Rogers. "Ladies," said Mamie, "I hope you'll all vote for her. We women have to have a voice in things." The home movie cameras ground away, and people with Brownies worked furiously while Mamie met a dachshund pup named Ike, told him: "Why hello, Ike, I'll tell Ike I saw you today." She shook more hands and gave more autographs in a big, scrawling hand. When she climbed into her limousine, she was still clutching her doughnut. A thoroughly captivated crowd watched her wave it as the car pulled away...