Word: lorenz
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...With negritude the cultural rage, Baker was nominated as queen of Paris' great Colonial Exposition of 1931 -- until critics pointed out the obvious, that she was neither French nor African. Baker was memorably reminded of that during a 1935 dinner party in New York City given by Broadway lyricist Lorenz Hart. She insisted on speaking French at table until Hart's black maid burst out, "Honey, you is full of s - - - -. Talk the way yo' mouth was born...
Many critics are especially upset by hard-sell lottery advertising. An Illinois ad pictured a man scoffing at people investing in savings bonds, and insisting that winning the lottery is the only way an ordinary person can become a millionaire. Valerie Lorenz at the National Center for Pathological Gambling in Baltimore laments, "We used to say, 'Work hard, study hard, and you'll get ahead.' Now we say, 'Just gamble...
Chatwin contributes his own controversial assessments. The network of harmonious songlines convinces him that Homo sapiens is not hopelessly belligerent. He reconstructs a conversation he had with Konrad Lorenz, ethnologist and author of the influential On Aggression; he ransacks his notebooks and ponders anthropological and philosophical teachings. His hesitant conclusion is that humans are fundamentally restless and, like the aboriginal, the species needs to wander...
Madison was reminded that his literary agent had come down from New York. Though he loathed the power lunch scene at Duke Zwilling's Tavern, Madison felt compelled to put on a good show. Speedy Lorenz had brought along a top editor from Rumpole House to discuss publication of Madison's proposed Essays on Federalism. The protocols of a proper business meal were followed scrupulously: aimless discussion of the New York theater season (all British imports), summer houses (expensive) and the servant problem (dire) until coffee was mercifully served. Only then did the editor, Michael Lordover, come to the point...
When police searched the apartments of the missing women, they found several tools of the spy trade, including camera equipment that could be used to photograph documents and a briefcase with a secret compartment. West German authorities think that a third possible spy, a friend of Richter's named Lorenz Betzing, may have also fled eastward. She once worked for a firm that installed air conditioning at a military hideout built to serve as an emergency command center in case...