Word: personal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Miss Roberts, a model, then told her simple story. She, too, had been at El Morocco in the small hours, and as she was leaving in a dignified way with a big manufacturing person from Philadelphia, she came within range of Bogart's panda. At this exact moment a funny person asked her if she wanted the beast. She emitted a tinkling laugh and reached for it. Then this awful person, Bogart, charged out of nowhere...
Said Congressman Murphy, after the interview: "The Generalissimo is a plain, simple, intelligent man. He is a lovable, lovable person. What surprised me is his sense of humor. We really should have an ambassador here. This is the world's most anti-Communist state...
...dessert, there was Palmiro Togliatti, who appeared in person to make a fiery speech in which he dwelt smugly on Russia's possession of the atomic bomb. After the boss's speech, the carnival ended in a burst of fireworks, followed by glowing reports from the party treasury that the Florence carnival had boosted the total sum collected for the Communist press beyond 300 million lire (slightly less than half a million dollars...
...still hard to recall exactly where all the pathways led. And when she got inside the Administration Building she promptly got lost. She introduced herself to the first person who happened along, and asked: "Can you tell me where mv office...
...words of the founder: ". . . All the highest nervous activity . . . consists of a continual change of these three fundamental processes- excitation, inhibition and disinhibition." Everything good is excitatory; everything inhibitory (in the Freudian jargon, repression) is bad-it deprives a man of self-confidence. Says Salter: "The happy person does not waste time thinking. Self-control comes from no control at all ... The inhibitory think, without acting, 'and-delude themselves into believing that they are highly civilized types ... All people whose good manners are noticeable are excessively inhibited . . ." Nonetheless, he admits that a few inhibitions, e.g., waiting for the green...