Word: personality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...would have sung without the wine." Bing himself set up the schedule: two hours in the morning, two more in the afternoon, and further talks at cocktails every evening. But after filling six large notebooks, she gave him-and herself-one day off. Virginia found him an "ideal" person to interview: "I believe he is the wittiest man I have ever...
...present clearly lacking, congressional authority grows clearer and clearer. The legal roadblock has been all but removed by the Supreme Court's recently manifested willingness to let Congress give its own broad constitutional interpretation to the 14th Amendment guarantee that no state shall "deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws...
Nellie combines these anomalies in her own gangling, loquacious person. She has a job with a London newspaper that may or may not be the Daily Worker. She gives this up to marry a rising young labor organizer, George Cook. At the same time, she nurtures incestuous feelings for her brother Tom, who is "like a painted Christ in a blue and pink oleo," a mystic, a pacifist and a lady-killer who bums around the countryside with a harpy seeking faith cures for her cancer. He gets to feel that he is something of a healer himself, and sees...
...Dumitriu's own and who works as public relations officer for a huge shipbuilding corporation. Among the people he encounters: Annerose, a muddled, blue-eyed Venus who has deserted a wealthy husband, set herself up as a fashionable couturiere, and now longs for a "total commitment"-to a person, to a cause, to anything at all; Axel, a dazzling, dispassionate mystic of the absurd who has resigned his university lectureship to work in a hospital ward for thalidomide babies and preach a gospel of gratuitous, existential love, which Annerose finds appealing but scarcely persuasive; Octavio, a muscular young industrialist...
...leave the Commonwealth entirely. Five African heads of state found excuses not to attend the conference, and Tanzania's Julius Nyerere refused even to send a delegation in his place. Sierra Leone's Sir Albert Margai, one of the four African Premiers who showed up in person, apparently came to the meeting for the sole purpose of attacking Harold Wilson: in a bitter two-hour tirade, he accused the British leader of everything from duplicity to being "anti-African...