Word: honored
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FIREMEN'S BALL. Director Milos Forman (Loves of a Blonde) has fashioned a frothy, funny parody-fable of Communist bureaucracy from a slight anecdote about a group of firemen who stage a party in honor of their retiring chief...
...FIREMEN'S BALL. From a slight and funny anecdote about a group of firemen who stage a party in honor of their retiring chief, Director Miloś Forman (Loves of a Blonde) has fashioned a delightful parody-fable of Communist bureaucracy in pre-Dubćek Czechoslovakia...
...hardly mollified. The Secretary of Defense, he declared, had "shown a gift of saying the wrong thing at the wrong time." At a reception in his honor, Ky went farther. "Do you ever hear the Russians or the Chinese criticizing North Viet Nam?" he fumed. "My problem is I have to fight not only my enemies but also my so-called friends. Those who talk are not especially my friends. They sometimes talk too much. They think that by insulting me they will make me change my mind. They make a mistake. I would like them to shut...
...rice or sugarcane farmers, Burnham's government has been working on new strains that will mean better crops. Also, Burnham allowed India's Bank of Baroda to open a branch in Guyana, declared national holidays on Muslim and Hindu feast days, issued Guyanan postage stamps in honor of the Koran. As a result, Burnham last week carried Indian districts that Jagan had always considered safe. And the long-term effects of such policies augur well for mineral-rich Guyana's future in an atmosphere of racial harmony. They do, that is, unless the mercurial Jagan oversteps...
Urbanity of Psyche. The critical derision that greeted the award from many quarters was rather unjust. When he was asked if he thought that he deserved the honor, Steinbeck replied: "Frankly, no." Yet, as Edmund Wilson observed in an otherwise critical essay: "There remains behind the journalism, the theatricalism and the tricks, a mind which does seem first-rate in its unpanicky scrutiny of life...