Word: ills
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Where to Watch? Given the Congo's endemic anarchy, the government can ill afford to spare many troops. Leopoldville, as usual, is seething with discontent. Last week 200 Leopoldville soldiers had to be jailed when they refused to go to Kwilu. Volatile Katanga, where the secessionist rebellion was crushed a year ago, still harbors roaming bands of ex-gendarmes...
...heard himself called everything from a liar and a traitor to a coward and a thief. In a final paroxysm, Napoleon described him as a "silk stocking full of merde." Without turning a hair, Talleyrand left the room, remarking only, "What a pity a great man should be so ill-bred...
...woman, "she listens to him," Miss Sarraute writes, with the "face of a rapt fanatic . . . and an inadequately furnished head into which come to settle perhaps, taking up all the room, who knows what absurd beliefs . . . Christian science . . . occultism . . . yogi . . . Greek sandals . . . table-tipping." Two critics pass the ill-matched pair. "Ha, ha," they gibe, "still discussing The Golden Fruits?" Translated into Sarrautese, this sally means: "Poor creatures, incapable of grasping, dissecting anything delicate . . . trusting only in their instinct, which immediately makes them react to what is 'true,' 'beautiful,' 'alive' as they say, like...
...Webster's defines such an edifice as "a building, stone, pillar, or the like, erected in memory of the dead." Neitzche, you may remember, pronounced the Almighty's demise. Does Johnson concur? Some, for their own nefarious political purpose, may insinuate that he shares the philosopher's conviction. These ill-wishers may remind the voters of that compelling syllogism from Thus Spake Zarathustra: "If there were Gods, then how could I bear to be no God. Therefore, there are no Gods...
Charlotte Mercedes Agnes McCambridge, now 46, was raised on a farm within 80 miles of Adlai's home in Libertyville, Ill. She went to Mundelein College in Chicago and was married soon after graduation to a boy "whose father was a minister, and I thought that sounded nice and permanent. We went to Mexico to live like Tolstoy." The marriage did not last, nor did her second one, to Fletcher Markle, once the young wizard of Canadian broadcasting. Her personal life, in fact, has been a long bout with a troubled psyche. A little over a year...