Word: napkins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Capote dramatizes his conversation with elaborate hand gestures. He has a deft trick of touching his tongue, presumably for loose tobacco ("I never smoke those filter-tips; nothing comes through"), and then touching his fingers lightly on a napkin in his lap. He has a high nervous laugh when excited about something, and postures his head in a series of attentive or thoughtful attitudes...
There's a change of pace in store for the student on week-ends. His full course meal is an Epicurean delight, and he smiles benignly as he folds his napkin and dutifully carries his dishes into the kitchen...
...command post on Jerusalem's anciently named Hill of Evil Counsel, Major General Carlsson von Horn, Swedish chief of staff of the U.N. Palestine Truce Supervision Organization, had just spread a luncheon napkin across his knees when the walkie-talkie telephone began to grunt and gasp. An aide picked it up and took the message: Israelis and Jordanians were shooting at each other in the demilitarized zone on Mount Scopus behind the Mount of Olives...
...luncheon coffee at the Elysee Palace arrives gaunt Rene Pleven, to announce that he cannot form a government after all because the Radicals refuse to support his choice of Andreé Morice, a "tough-line" man on Algeria, as Minister of Defense. With a sigh President Coty folds his napkin. Nothing for it but to send out telegrams canceling the Assembly meeting-something that has never before occurred under the Fourth Republic-and to call on someone else to try and form a government...
...dined quickly but carefully, a white linen napkin spread on his lap, and dropped a few tablets of sacchrine into his black coffee. Professor Beer, who uses sugar and cream, put his napkin on the table and began to question Russell...