Word: neveral
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...once admitted, "a period piece." He would never buy a car, had a neurotic fear of cities, disliked much modern poetry ("Has T. S. Eliot ever written three consecutive lines of poetry in his life?"). His own affection lay in the past -the whole past of English literature and all the men & women who had made it. "Literature is, I repeat, memorable speech recording memorable thoughts and deeds . . ." For Q, it was life itself...
...voices of Caesar and Napoleon, of Genghis Khan, George Washington and Pontius Pilate were never heard by posterity. But the voices of the captains, kings, heroes and villains of the recent past are on record and can be heard as long as the records last. The latest collection,* in an album of five Columbia records called I Can Hear It Now . . . , contains excerpts from famous broadcasts...
...sensation that Parisians save their loudest bravos for.* Part of the cheers were for France's best male dancer, Jean Babilée-and a new star The Creation had created overnight: 17-year-old, almond-eyed Leslie Caron, a half American, half French girl who had never even seen a ballet until after the war. (Leslie's mother, Margaret Petit, once danced in New York...
...snow," and New Englanders may as well face it. Abe Weatherwise says so. For a century and a half, the meteorologist of the Old Farmer's Almanac has been predicting the year-round weather, and for all its radar and radio balloons, the U.S. Weather Bureau has never been able to woo his fans away. His forecast for the coming winter is a moderately pesky...
...completely fictional character he is," wrote Sagendorph, "but . . . frankly, Abe Weatherwise is a mainstay around the office." The Almanac had left Abe's forecasts out just once, in 1938: sales flopped, subscribers howled, and it will never happen again...