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...another occasion Frye was attending an Uzbek ballet when he noticed a commotion during the intermission. A member of an Indian trade delegation, for the moment without his interpreter, was trying to get the autograph of the prima ballerina. She had no way of understanding his intentions, however, and must have imagined all sorts of things. But then Frye came up and explained in Russian what the Indian wanted. The ballerina was pleased to comply. When he, too, asked for her autograph, however, she refused, saying, "Go away, it's only for foreigners...
Meet the Future. In 1943, when he began his duty as an intern at St. Mary's Hospital in Duluth, life took on a new dimension for Dr. Stapp. "I had only seen pure scientists before, the prima donnas in universities working in their nit-picking ways at academic doodlings to impress each other. Now for the first time I saw science and men of science working as a team, bringing everything to bear-the enormous facilities of the hospital, their own talents and devotion-to the saving of human life...
Married. Margot Fonteyn (real name: Peggy Hookham), 35, prima ballerina of Britain's famed Sadler's Wells company; and Roberto Arias, 36, lawyer and son of Panama's onetime (1932-36) President Harmodio Arias; she for the first time, he for the second; in Paris...
...must he not hold himself accountable for an equal portion of this deplorable spectacle? Americans have a weakness for making heroes of all who "arrive"-movie stars, football players, etc. It is indeed regrettable that only a few so acclaimed can weather the strain without becoming stage-struck prima donnas. Generals and scientists are not exceptions . . . Many scientists now feature themselves as authorities on international and domestic politics, industrial and governmental organization, finance, family relations, and military security. [They] seem to feel insulted ... if their every opinion, on whatever subject, is not accepted without question and in the same worshipful...
...belief that "mistiness is the mother of safety." Thus, he will write, "In transmitting this matter to the Council the Minister feels that it may be of assistance to them to learn that, as at present advised, he is inclined to the view that, in existing circumstances, there is, prima facie, a case for . . .", which is tantamount to saying, "This is what the Minister thinks in the present state of his mind, but, as he is human, the state of his mind may change." Other sins of officialese...