Word: preferably
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first impression they get in Moscow, say newsmen who have served there, is a sense of utter isolation. They live in a foreign ghetto; they see mostly fellow reporters; they make the rounds of embassy receptions that yield little information. They prefer not to use their tapped telephones for interviews. And they would be better advised to write a letter to anyone they want to see. They may not leave Moscow without permission. After trying various ploys, one reporter explained that he wanted to visit Odessa to see the sunrise. In due course, the reply came back: "The sunrise...
Sniffs Vogue Editorial Director Alexander Liberman: "An artificial issue. I think most designers are happy to be part of an avant-garde development-though some undoubtedly prefer the more static, conventional photograph." Says Vogue's Editor in Chief Diana Vreeland: "I've never heard of any criticism and never heard of any argument...
Portions of the book have already appeared in LIFE and ten other publications, and consequently his opinions of the State Department as "a bowl of jelly" and of Secretary of State Dean Rusk as a man who "seemed actually to prefer stale to fresh ways of saying things" are already well known. On page after page, he betrays his view of Rusk as a man who is almost always silent because he almost never has anything to say-and he suggests that Kennedy felt the same way. What did Rusk think of Italy's impending apertura a sinistra (opening...
Generally they prefer the status quo. Departmental chairmanships are not, to put it discretely, the University's most popular jobs. They involve all sorts of administrative trivia. Those who take them do so stoically, imbued more with a sense of duty than with any real zeal for reform. As a result, the departments, which control the bulk of every students's education, are headed by men with little time or energy to think about students--or education...
...Mark, 27, to assume his mantle: "His voice is exactly like mine-uncannily so." The resurgence of baroque music, Deller thinks, is led by the younger generation, who "have chosen to sidestep the romantics. They no longer want their ears invaded by the oozy wash of sound. They prefer instead to hear counter point, to hear the architecture of the music. It is a restatement of a fundamental truth that speaks across the centuries." And somehow it speaks most truly in the lofty blue-yonder voice of the countertenor...