Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...kind of conversational sword play between U.S. Foreign Correspondent Percy Winner and an Italian journalist named Dario Duvolti rustles throughout this urban study of a European Fascist intellectual. When Winner first met Dario in 1925 he was reminded of Count Keyserling's remark about the women of Italy-that as young girls they dream of being grandmothers. Dario, brilliant and ambitious, dreamt of being an ambassador, and was but a few rungs from the top of Mussolini's ladder when it fell in 1943. Unlike most of the climbers, however, he was not hurt. A daring young...
...example, The Attorney General's carefully worded remark did not touch Mr. Wallace's central thesis. Mr. Clark said, "One who tells the people of Europe that the United States is committed to a ruthless imperialism--and war with the Sovet Union --tells a lie." Under the guise of diplomatic avoidance of mentioning names, Mr. Clark is guilty of innuende, at a time when Mr. Clark himself calls for "clear thinking." It is true that the United States is not yet committed to a ruthless imperialism. The Truman-Vandenberg Doctrine is not yet passed. It is the very...
...year-old Stewart Perowne, able adviser in Britain's Bagdad Embassy. Twenty years a Middle East hand, Perowne even more than the British Ambassadors (who come & go) symbolizes British rule in Iraq. Unlike most British officials, he openly plugs for a larger Hashimite kingdom. A favorite Perowne remark: "Iraq shines like a good deed in a naughty world...
...flamboyant Reynolds Packard, 43, tossed off the vodka in, one neat kan pei (bottoms up). Then he made a speech, whose opening remark was directed at the editor of the Peiping Chronicle...
...love." Like a breath of spring, a faint note of optimism crept in; somebody mentioned that old Hughie Casey had concocted a new and very secret pitch. "Gonna win twenty games, he says." But it was just a breath and it died on the next remark: "What ya been smokin', bud, mario-wanna...