Word: humors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Feldstein is incredibly businesslike," reports Beckwith. "At the end of our interview, I took a minute to review my notes. Instead of just sitting there, Feldstein got up and went to his desk to work. He has wit and humor, but frankly, it is the dry, academic kind that isn't going to keep Johnny Carson from sleeping nights...
...European governments must meet head-on the disturbing trends toward pacifism and neutralism in their countries. These movements are led by people of conviction; they cannot be defused by accommodation. They can only be resisted with a compelling vision of a new future. If European governments continue to humor those who profess to see the danger to the peace in a bellicose America, not an intransigent Soviet Union, they will find themselves making concession after concession and will become hostages of their critics...
...specifically Irish penchant for black humor mainfests itself in McGinley's novel, though he manages to keep it under control. After Elizabeth's and Kevin's marriage. Elizabeth explains her initial timidity on sexual questions as the result for her being raped by an English journalists, McGinley writes...
...meeting, the Soviet visitor came across as "a man of conviction and even punch." At one point, Mauroy referred to "heaven" as he described the importance of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland. This remark elicited a flash of that rarest of Chernenko's known qualities, a sense of humor. "Heaven," he quipped, "is already inhabited?by our cosmonauts...
DIED. Julio Cortázar, 69, avant-garde Argentine writer (best-known novel: Hopscotch) and political activist, who supported the Cuban and Nicaraguan revolutions; of a heart attack; in Paris. Cortázar's subtle humor and sinister sense of fantasy, combined with the themes of identity and reincarnation, moved a fellow novelist to hail him as "one of the greatest creators of Latin American literature...