Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hostess must be ready, too, for any conversational emergency. Example: if Mr. Smathers down the table should remark: "Beethoven's Quartet, Opus 18, Number 6, is truly magnificent," the Prepared Hostess will instantly reply (preferably with an imperceptible flutter of the eyelashes): "Yes. but Bartok scores the gaps. That's the difference." This will immediately show the guests that she is the sort of person who knows about hollyhocks, and almost guarantee that the guests will hurry home to hunt up their copy of this week's TIME, flip quickly to NATIONAL AFFAIRS, and read Fried Shoes...
...event, there is much resentment abroad that foreign bids are first invited, and that when successful they are then rejected on grounds which should have precluded their invitation. Secretary Dulles, hard pressed, conceded this "imperfection," but found the decision satisfying. His remark failed to comfort the British government, which, often at its own political expense, has supported the American policies of freer trade and economic interdependence. It has managed to stabilize the pound, increase convertability, maintain debt payments, and encourage sales efforts in the dollar area-all objectives which America has been encouraging. Now, with elections approaching, it appears that...
Then later at the pool-hall I got into another conversational circle with some up-and-coming young professional men from the Syndicate. They were all talking about the South, but I was able to join in easily with an off-hand remark about Governor Almond's blowing "off his mask of cool legality" and taking "to the air waves like a latter-day Faubus." Then one of my business-leader friends told me that Almond has acquiesced to the court orders and had persuaded the emergency session of the Virginia legislature to go along with him in destroying massive...
Finally, the President was reminded of a remark he had made in 1948 when, as the Army's outgoing chief of staff, he had offered his personal prescription for retirement : "Put a chair on the porch. Sit in it for six months, and then begin to rock slowly." Had his ideas changed since then? Said the President of the U.S., looking like almost anything but a candidate for a rocking chair: "I don't know how long this type of retirement would last, but at least I want to sit in that chair until I really want...
...true lovers of Jane Austen are those who do not advertise their devotion, but are content to whisper 'Dear Jane' as they pause at the grave in the ancient aisle of Winchester Cathedral." This remark (from the Concise Cambridge History of English Literature) shows precisely the position Jane Austen holds in English literature, for would anyone whisper "Dear Alfred" at Tennyson's grave or "Dear Charles" at Dickens'-still less be urged to do so by an academic history? The fact is that though no two "Janeites" can ever agree on what words...