Word: proverbes
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...bite unless you are prepared to swallow," says an old Ethiopian proverb, and a good bit of swallowing is ahead for Haile Selassie in return for his take of the East's goodies. Several thousand refugees from the rule of his great friend Tito are due to be deported back to Yugoslavia soon. Chinese envoys, disguised as journalists, have already arrived in Addis Ababa in hopeful anticipation of Ethiopian diplomatic recognition of Red China. And some time next year, the Emperor has been warned to expect a visit from Communism's senior traveling salesman, Nikita Khrushchev himself...
...usual, Nikita Khrushchev had a proverb handy. "We have a saying, 'When the lords are fighting, the serfs are bleeding.' It is incomprehensible that small countries would suffer if relations among the great powers improve...
...front of a book or chapter. And no novelist now working is better equipped to conduct a seminar on the technique than Niven (Duel in the Sun) Busch. His current novel, about a moneyed San Francisco clan, has ten epigraphs-one at the beginning of each chapter. A Latin proverb assures doubters that the author is classically educated, a quotation from the San Francisco Examiner implies that his feet are solidly on the ground, a scrap from T. S. Eliot warns that there is subtle stuff ahead...
Segni's critics say that his chief attraction, aside from his kindly personality, is his scrupulous avoidance of vigorous action. But his patchwork Cabinet may be around awhile nonetheless. Among his fellow politicians he is known as "the cracked vase"-an allusion to an Italian proverb which says that a cracked vase often outlasts an uncracked one because everybody handles it so tenderly...
...Book of Proverbs (27:5) tells us, "Open rebuke is better than secret love," and this offers some comfort, however meagre, when one regards the ferocious and peevish attack of certain Deans upon the Class of 1961. Since, by the continual assertion of noted Deans and Officers at Registration, Harvard classes have been growing progressively more intelligent since about 1936, it is necessary to conclude that by 1961 the gap has doubtless become so great that Deans and others no longer have any real standards by which to judge more recent classes, and must confine themselves to their predictions...