Word: markedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From the Washington bureau, White House Correspondent Charles Mohr followed President Eisenhower on his trip to Manhattan to welcome Kozlov; Correspondent Mark Sullivan tracked the Russian steadily through public and private functions in Washington; Anne Chamberlin flew to California in the Kozlov plane, persuaded him to answer the first personal biographical questions he had ever answered. The Kozlov story-a narrative of his travels and a portrait of his personality-was written by Jesse Birnbaum and edited by Louis Banks. It is preceded in NATIONAL AFFAIRS by a story that puts his visit and all the current visits by Americans...
...bits with a rapier; and indeed the entire Evans-Caius duel scene is brilliantly staged. Jack Bittner rants vigorously as the Host of the Garter Inn with an excessive penchant for the adjective "bully." Frederic Warriner is aptly idiotic and cringing as the suitor Slender. And nine-year-old Mark Carson acquits himself admirably in his amusing Latin lesson with Evans...
...your June 15 story on Lewis Strauss most interesting and informative. It told not only about him but of the pettiness of our Congressmen. To refuse a capable man a position because of personality, rather than wrongdoing, reflects the immaturity of some of our Congressmen and is a strong mark against our country...
...Richest Man J. Paul Getty, London Dealer Geoffrey Agnew, Manhattan Dealer Julius Weitzner, and Leonard Koetser, a calm London dealer who had not even put in a bid until the price reached ?160,000. At the ?250,000 mark, only Agnew and Koetser were still slugging. Then, with Koet-ser's 15th and final nod, two minutes after the opening bid. Auctioneer Wilson knocked down the painting for ?275,000 ($770,000)-highest price ever recorded for a single painting at public auction...
...muscles). There he spies the girl of his dreams-but alas, she loves a weight lifter. Can the underpected salesman sunder this pair? Sure he can, if he will only assert his baritoned intelligence against the rival falsetto. A falsetto, of course, is-in the definition of Poet-Punster Mark Van Doren-a guy with a false set o' values...