Word: mouthfuls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mission to India. In past days, proposals to pool foreign aid have met with congressional insistence that there should be Made-in-U.S.A. labels on all gifts sent abroad in order to win cold-war advantage. And until lately, European nations have talked poor mouth (Italy, for example, likes to bring up its own impoverished south, the Mezzogiorno, as one of the world's underdeveloped regions). Or they have insisted that British spending in the Commonwealth, French aid to its Community, and Belgian assistance to the Congo must be reckoned as each country's contribution to taking...
Born with a silver-plated spoon in his mouth, Amory (Harvard '39) has spent most of his postgraduate years doggedly following society's international trail. Somewhere between Boston and Bar Harbor he lost the scent, concluded gloomily that society was dead. "I realized," said Amory, "that the celebrity world overcame the society world-nobody looks at Mrs. Vanderbilt's pearls any more; they just want to see what Marlene Dietrich is wearing...
...home movies, the characters on the screen mouth lost words. On the sound track Kerouac talks on, speaking for them. Visitors knock. "Button your fly and go answer the door," says Kerouac for the mother. The little boy opens the door. Enter Poets Ginsberg and Corso. They drink beer and wine, smoke marijuana, look out the window, where "90-year-old men are being run over by gasoline trucks." The audience now knows that Pull My Daisy is not just another she-bugs-me, she-bugs-me-not story...
CHURCHILL: "In all his plans he lives from hand to mouth; he can never grasp a whole plan...
...reader feels sharply Katherine's humiliation and despair when her neurotically protective father insists on being her dancing partner at parties. For violence and despair, the Dunham family wars approach Eugene O'Neill's. When the last blow has been struck-backhanded, across the mouth-and Katherine has at last left home, it seems astonishing that she has somehow survived her long night's journey into...