Word: reading
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Personal Status. As Premier of the new "government," Ferhat Abbas represents a more moderate choice than might have been expected. A placid ex-pharmacist who speaks much better French than Arabic ("I cannot read Arabic, and I speak it like a country bumpkin"), Abbas was long the recognized leader of the pro-French Moslems, has worked most of his life to bring France and Moslem Algerians into a decent, humane relationship. Though he was twice jailed by the French and called a salaud (dirty bum) by a right-wing Deputy when he was a member of the French Constituent Assembly...
...Soviet Union, the omens read, sales would be low of the bestselling Inside Russia Today by Reporter John Gunther. One omen: a blistering review in the powerful Literary Gazette, official voice of the Soviet Writers' Union. Conceding that Gunther had some of his facts straight on Soviet industry and culture, the Gazette dismissed the latest Inside story as "ill-intentioned lies and malinformed assertion," containing analyses of Marxism and Soviet history that are "slanderous, libelous and inaccurate...
...were choosing, it would be decisive ... It is simply that here we know our audience. In America the writers don't really know whom they are writing for-apart from their fellow writer-scholars." In England, "Mr. Macmillan, Mr. Butler, Mr. Gaitskell are all deeply read men, interested in contemporary work; so are a good sprinkling of other members of the House. That would also be true of a surprisingly high proportion of civil servants and miscellaneous administrative bosses ... Do American politicians, civil servants, schoolteachers read as ours do? If they do, the writers do not feel their response...
...statement he read to the HYRC Planning Committee, Dawson explained that "personal business reasons make it necessary" for him to retire from office. He expressed "regret and disappointment" at being required to take the action, and thanked the members of the HYRC for cooperation they had given...
Once upon a time there were two Kerrs, Mama Kerr and Papa Kerr. (There were a lot of baby Kerrs too, but you can read all about them in Mama's best-seller.) One day, Mama Kerr said to Papa Kerr, "Walter, let us write a musical. A musical with lots of sentiment and lots of laughs and lots and lots of old-fashioned goodness...