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...periods, he notes it was at one time fashionable "to be dull, to be opulent, to be stuffed, to be bored." Society eventually relaxed and dinners speeded up from two hours to 55 minutes. Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish "injected candour where before she had found cant," and laughter "replaced an owlish gravity of demeanour...
Drug company officials were understandably reluctant to let their names be used with comment about their coerced tribute to Castro. Said one, looking owlish when asked if Bobby Kennedy and the Justice Department had clobbered him into cooperation: "I do not care to comment." Said another: "You're bastards if you're in on the deal and you're bastards...
Opting Out. Tall and owlish, Hughes candidly declares that he has "never been a strenuous anti-Communist" and that his "sympathies have mostly been with democratic socialism." He strenuously advocates nuclear disarmament, wants...
...spreading like a frontier clearing into a forest that formerly belonged to the earthbound Department of Agriculture. Its buildings, with odd antennas sprouting from their roofs, suggest the fearful complexity of the space age. Coaxial cables rear out of the ground and dive into the innards of electronic computers. Owlish young mathematicians wander in forests of electronics, flicking computer switches and managing somehow to look both callow and wise...
Playing Jack Kennedy in the German version was Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard, who made his reputation as the laissez-faire-dealing architect of Germany's postwar prosperity. Seven weeks ago, as West German televiewers waited for the evening weather broadcast. Erhard's owlish face unexpectedly appeared on their screens. Coldly, the Minister warned that unless labor stopped pressing for higher wages (which went up almost 15% last year) and business stopped boosting prices, German exports might well be priced out of international markets...