Word: proverbes
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...ideologically and politically rehabilitated: "He is touched by the misery of the Russian people he tried to help," Petrov says. In Paris, Petrov brought a bouquet of flowers to Chaliapin's grave in the Batignolles Cemetery, then disclaimed the master's influence with a fashionable Russian proverb: "Better a bad originality than a perfect copy...
...will depend on their "white army," the Bedouin tribesmen traditionally loyal to the King. But if the road ahead looks rough for the monarchies, it by no means is smooth for the "liberated" states, since victory most often presents only new occasions for quarrels, in keeping with the Arab proverb that says, "I and my brother against my cousin; I and my cousin against the foreigner...
Love and Larceny. "The fool banks in the crook's pocket." The old Italian proverb is wittily illustrated in this new Italian film: a merry little con manual that might serve equally for the instruction of rogues and the sophistication of innocents abroad. Educative excerpts...
...Chinese proverb says, "Where there is an excess of ceremony, there is sure to be deceit...
...said, seems "determined to either rule or ruin American agriculture." He called the costly price-support system a ''morass into which we have floundered." He warned farmers that a "vast bureaucracy of tens of thousands of political payrollers is around our neck." Then, switching to a proverb he never heard in his own Illinois. Shuman said: "Our situation in agriculture brings to mind the old adage, 'He who rides a tiger should first make plans for dismounting.' The challenge farmers face is how to dismount the farm program 'tiger' without getting wounded...