Word: nonstop
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Surely these letters would bear witness to a woman of brilliance, possibly genius. There are, in fact, marvelously unmodified capsule comments on her reading. She devoured Crime and Punishment on her honeymoon, lying on a sofa nibbling chocolates, and she kept reading and judging-nonstop, it seemed-happily ever after. While Dostoevsky was nonpareil, others came off less fortunately. Conrad, the letter reader learns, was a "distant admiration." Joyce was a doubtful quantity: "I don't know that he's got anything very interesting to say." Henry James emerged as "faintly tinged rose water." Ezra Pound was "humbug...
Died. Clarence D. Chamberlin, 83, the first pilot to fly with a passenger on a nonstop transatlantic flight, just two weeks after Charles Lindbergh's historic solo trip in 1927; in Shelton, Conn. Chamberlin was prepared to make the first nonstop trip to Europe weeks before Lindbergh was ready, but legal problems kept his plane on the ground, and Lindbergh set the record. Chamberlin later worked for several aviation companies and in real estate...
...evening's theme song was the Helen Reddy-popularized hit "I am Woman," which the all-male three-piece band in the ERA reception ballroom played nonstop for long intervals...
...British longshoreman blew 192 smoke rings from a single cigarette puff. A civil servant played his accordion nonstop for 26 hours and 20 minutes. One 15-year-old gulped down 19 pickled onions in two minutes. They were all contestants in Cosmorama, a Screwball Olympics held in Lingfield, England, where the equivalent of a gold was winning an entry in the Guinness Book of World Records. The show's Bruce Jenner was Tory Roy Hatter, 25, vice chairman of the Young Conservatives and new holder of the world record for nonstop political speeches...
That blunt comment by one of black Africa's most respected statesmen reflects a widespread conviction that Uganda's President Idi Amin Dada is the most grotesque national leader in power anywhere today. His credentials as bully and buffoon go back well before Entebbe. The nonstop reign of terror that the massive (6 ft. 4 in., 280 Ibs.) former Ugandan heavyweight boxing champion and army sergeant major has unleashed since he seized power more than five years ago is thought to have cost the lives of at least 50,000 and perhaps as many as 200,000 Ugandans...