Word: offs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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"Never give camellias; the heads fall off," cautions an official pamphlet issued to Tokyo's 23,000 policemen last week. "And never give sick people potted plants; their connotation of being rooted may make recipient think you expect him to be sick a long time."
In the multifoliate, delicately shaded structure of Japanese manners, even the off-duty politeness of policemen needs subtle cultivation. Other petals of advice in the pamphlet for crude cops:
On a lazy Sunday afternoon, Castro laid wreaths on the monuments to Lincoln and Jefferson, noted that Jefferson "understood what revolutions should do." On NBC's Meet the Press, he sweated his way past a few sharp questions. (How soon elections? "Not more than four years. The people don...
But a month after Baby discovered her, he asked for Ana Maria's hand in marriage. Papa de Carvalho protested that "Senhor Pignatari has lived a very full life, and my daughter is only a child," but he soon gave in. That night, Baby called for champagne, slipped a...
The program was provocative: four works by four U.S. composers, three of whom are little known. Bennington College's Louis Calabro was represented by the premiere of his Sonata for Piano; Brooklyn College's Josef Alexander offered his Songs for Eve; Hall Overton, composition teacher, presented his String...