Word: proverb
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Wagging Tail. A Russian proverb says that if you run with the pack, it is necessary not only to bark but to wag your tail. Andrei Yanuarevich set out to be a tailwagger extraordinary. Tirelessly he lectured and wrote about the "magnificent and profoundly true words" of contemporary Bolshevik leaders. A functionary in the Moscow Law School (though the record later dignified his jobs with grandiose titles), he was detested by the Old Bolshevik jurists. "I cannot stomach him," said Appellate Judge Galkin. "That man is simply a disgusting careerist." In the university he got to know a plump young...
...Haitian proverb...
...Spanish proverb does not work out if doing nothing is carried too far. In a small attic office at McGill University in Montreal, Psychologist Woodburn Heron pays students $20 a day to lie on a soft bed in a soundproofed, air-conditioned cubicle. The students' eyes are covered by translucent goggles so that they see only a foggy glow. On their hands they wear cardboard gauntlets over thick gloves to deaden their sense of touch...
...There is an old Italian proverb," said one moviemaker last week: "He who digs a grave is the first to fall into it." But as long as the Italians keep finding gold, they are likely to keep digging. When the gold runs out, they may begin to listen to such critics as Neo-Realist Cesare Zavattini, who says: "It is a crime to use this gift of God . . . the film ... if we don't use our moral conscience and also make films of the real life we see before us. It is like using soap only to make bubbles...
Heritage of Hatred. "It is the duty of each man in his lifetime," says an Arab proverb, "to beget a son, to plant a tree and to dig a well." If each nation in the Middle East did its duty about its water supply in the next 30 years, Egypt could raise its food output 30%, Syria 143%, Iraq 183%. Lebanon 37%. One difficulty is that in the vast dry-land area between the Mediterranean and the Persian Gulf, only one of six major rivers-Lebanon's Litani-runs its entire length within a single country. To store...