Word: mouths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...point, and I can't remember now which of us influenced the other--although such an occurrence is not infrequent among friends. Now, Nick and I both knew that Forster was a "bourgeois" novelist, but still, Nick told me of crying at the plea that Forster puts in the mouth of the wise Meg--"only connect," she says--only connect your own sufferings, your longings as a person, to other people's. That was what Nick believed: that human beings' were all pretty much alike, and that they all had similar needs; and to be free they only...
...that it mattered. A ringing, luminous sound, fueled by Tucker's majestic belief in both music and the voice he felt that God had given him, was embellishment enough for the legions of operagoers who came year after year to hear Verdi and Puccini melt in his mouth...
...received as a gift from Fidel Castro--after refusing to surrender. The President was given several opportunities to evacuate La Moneda (the Presidential Palace), but after calling on the Chilean people to come out with arms in his aid, he cowardly placed Castro's gun in his mouth and shot himself. Allende would have otherwise been offered exile. The way LeMoyne words it, it sounds as if the U.S. were to be blamed for somehow assassinating Allende! The author also makes some unsupported generalizations such as the statement about E1 Mercurio, the opposition paper, being "funded...
...case. A woman named Linda Brown introduces him--"We most of all want to feel that at the richest university in the world we should have a voice," she says--and Van Delft starts to speak in booming, reassuring tones, the unlit cigarette jouncing up and down in his mouth...
Instead of foaming at the mouth out of justified indignation and unjustified ignorance, and simplistically demanding abolition of the CIA because some of its honchos were criminals, the Crimson should seek to reform the Agency, by purging it of functions and personnel associated with domestic operations, by shackling the probably dispensable dirty tricks branch, and by fortifying the Agency's intelligence branch. Earnestly yours, Dick Betts Teaching Fellow in Government