Word: hint
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dirty, and in Paterson, his masterpiece, he achieved a Whitmanesque vision of the American myth as he told of the city's dying, thirsty waterfalls and of trees stunted by concrete and grime. In Spring Storm, he saw nature's liberation of the cold earth as a hint of higher human values...
Present-Cum-Hint. 5BX enthusiasts distribute the R.C.A.F. pamphlets with missionary zeal worthy of the Gideon Bible Society. Company executives find them in their in boxes-a kind of corporate present-cum-hint. U.S. Steel ordered some; Young & Rubicam, the advertising agency, bought 2,500 copies; the entire Cleveland Symphony Orchestra is doing the exercises, as is the Swope Ridge Home for the Aged in Kansas City...
Seven Reasons. In London, British officials produced their own minutes of the Rambouillet talks, which contained no hint that Macmillan had ever proposed a deterrent "independent of America." The Prime Minister, they said, had indeed agreed that De Gaulle should push ahead with his force de frappe, but had pointedly expressed his hopes that it would eventually be assigned to NATO. Snapped one official: "The French have now given seven different reasons why De Gaulle turned down British membership. The only thing they haven't claimed yet is that it was because Scotland beat France 11-6 at rugby...
...earlier book, Devil of a State, is a Waugh-like account of a fictional state remarkably like Brunei, where he had served as educational adviser to the Sultan. It won praise for what seemed like the high spirits of a young talent (Burgess was then 42). It gave little hint of the moral seriousness of Orange, where the brassily orchestrated jive of nadsat is used to point up a grave philosophic theme. It is a gruesomely witty cautionary tale-but not one for children...
Thus the door was slammed on Britain, but was it finally barred and bolted? De Gaulle is too skillful a tactician ever to be trapped in an absolutely rigid and negative position. Even his acrimonious Paris discourse contained the hint that Britain might be welcomed in the Common Market in five years or so, i.e., after France has had ample time to weld the political unity of the European Economic Community. Venerable Jean Monnet, the father of the Common Market, took issue with De Gaulle by insisting that Britain should be admitted now because it has already "renounced all preference...