Word: mongolians
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...introduces another character and halts all action for a couple of chapters while she tells how he achieved his present wretchedness. The measure of how feeble are the author's efforts is that the major shockers concern a servant girl who becomes pregnant, a woman who bears a Mongolian idiot, and a young man who will not admit that he is a homosexual. Novelist Metalious shows herself to be a woman of taste in telling this last episode; her custom is to describe heterosexual claspings in considerable detail, but after the smoldering line, "Come here, David," the young invert...
...bohemian. he was its gruffest voicer of strong opinions. "I know why there are so many pretty gals in New York," he once said, "all the ugly ones are in college." He dismissed Picasso's work as "kin to the nasty scrawls chalked on alley walls by underprivileged Mongolian monster boys...
...personal translations of the Soviets' words- which, rough as they sounded in their own interpreters' translations, were at times rougher still in the original. Stevens' skill was particularly helpful on words like ublindki-used by Khrushchev to describe the West Germans-which could mean "abortions" or "Mongolian idiots" or other terms far worse than some other translators used...
...oral-aural method started under strange conditions. Just before the outbreak of World War II, the American Council of Learned Societies attempted to find a better way to teach esoteric languages, such as Mongolian or Hindi. With a paucity of teachers understanding these tongues, the Council hit upon the use of tape recorders and a direct approach to the language: Submerge the student in an atmosphere of the language from the very first by use of a recorded master voice and let him absorb the language gradually as does a child. This experiment rapidly expanded, however, with the start...
There were handshakes all round, but there was no playing of anthems, no crowd of the kind the U.S.S.R. can muster for a visiting Mongolian. Imperturbably, Nixon read through his short airport speech, drawing extemporaneously on his freshly learned stock of Russian proverbs ("Better to see once than hear a hundred times"). As the party set out for the U.S. embassy, Nixon stopped long enough to shake hands with bystanding Russians in the manner that had served him well through Britain, Asia, Latin America and Africa. But the Russians had not the slightest idea...