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...chickadee, blue-gray above and whitish below . . . long, contrastingly colored tail." It migrates through the whole of Texas, winters in the southern part, breeds in the northern. The black-tailed gnatcatcher has "less white on tail." Among the robin's maculate cousins, "the reddish tail is the hermit thrush's mark." The deadpan statement, "red eye is of little aid," has nothing to do with liquor but refers to the red-eyed vireo - better "characterized by the gray cap and the black-bordered white 'eyebrow' stripe...
...Khoroshy Chelovek." In the last five years of the Fourth Republic, while other diplomats in Paris tended to write off the Hermit of Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises, Vinogradov told his staff, "Some day he will be back." On eight different occasions, he sought out the general for private interviews, usually at the office De Gaulle inhabited on his weekly visits to Paris. Each time, Vinogradov noted the general's growing impatience with NATO and his obsession with the steady decline of French prestige. After De Gaulle was swept back into power, Vinogradov's own prestige soared. "Khoroshy chelovek...
...Winslow Homer, also by Goodrich, reverently explores the austere, hermit master, who wrote to a would-be biographer: "I think that it would probably kill me to have [a biography] appear, and as the most interesting part of my life is of no concern to the public, I must decline to give you any particulars in regard...
...Caldwell complained that he gets no royalties from his highly popular Russian editions. Sholokhov's rejoinder: he gets no money from the U.S. for his books either. Later, Author Sholokhov sounded off in Washington to some U.S. authors about Nobel Prize-declining Novelist Boris (Doctor Zhivago) Pasternak. "A hermit crab," sniffed Sholokhov. Pointing out that they had never met, he added: "A fact that is indifferent to me-but bad for Pasternak...
Physically Cheng seemed unaffected by his hermit's existence. But as Ann Arbor police hauled him off to the county jail, his four-year preoccupation with loss of face suddenly vanished. Said he: "I have been a coward. I'm glad I was found...