Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...then issues his orders for the next day and turns in. He is up again at 10 or 11, after receiving advisers while still in bed. He is a meticulous dresser (his clothes come from Lanvin in Paris), and he has been known to fire a stenographer with the remark: "You don't know how to dress, Miss, and your hair is dirty." Says one newsman who has seen him at work in Indo-China: "Around him all women must be beautiful, all men handsome and intelligent, all motorcars sleek and fast, all public appearances impressive...
...afterward, a poor worker, José Trigo Villar, and his wife Concepción came to the home to adopt a child. They chose blue-eyed, blonde-curled Maria. "You are taking away a real marquesita" said one of the nurses at the home. José Trigo remembered the remark often during the next quarter-century when, hounded by poverty and civil war, he tramped up & down Spain in search of a living...
...suitor was only a factory hand, stubby and stolid, but husbands were not found under every orange tree, so Carmen said yes. The night before the banns were posted, Jose and Concepción told her what they knew about her birth. They repeated the nun's remark about her being "a real marquesita" and the young bride began to embellish her grey life with daydreams about a romantic past...
...country or on a campus with a shred of public morality this remark would be a scandal: Goodman might well be expelled from college, in any case he would be ostracized by many of his fellow-students. It is just accident that Americans live in the only major country of the world which has not, in the last fifty years, been a battlefield; but we think we can "beat" the war game, or "fix" it--like a basketball game, or a West Point examination--without taking any risks or really exerting ourselves...
...country or on a campus with a shred of public morality this remark would be a scandal: Goodman might well be expelled from college, in any case he would be ostracized by many of his fellow-students. It is just accident that Americans live in the only major country of the world which has not, in the last fifty years, been a battlefield; but we think we can "beat" the war game, or "fix" it--like a basketball game, or a West Point examination--without taking any risks or really exerting ourselves...