Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Something in Common. Later in the week, the President and the Shah got down to serious business, and when the Shah addressed a joint session of Congress, in an appeal for continued U.S. aid for his country, he won a prolonged ovation with a quiet remark: "However you decide, the people of Iran have not maintained their freedom for 2,500 years in order to now surrender.'' Most thoughts of the cold war were dispelled, though, by the parties, and especially by Jackie Kennedy and Empress Farah...
...keep Nick. Murray must go back to his old TV job. Murray's notion of re-ingratiating himself is to look out of his agent's mid-Manhattan office window and remark casually. "Why, there's King Kong sitting on top of the Seagram Building. He's crying. Someone should have told him they don't make buildings the way they used to." Out of the squawk box on the agent's desk comes the brassy voice of Chuckles the Chipmunk (Gene Saks) to put the whammy on Murray's whimsy. The ensuing...
...significant. But although his anecdotes are amusing and interesting, they are only dimly illuminating. Somehow the fact that Hart Crane was a drunk and had a penchant for throwing his typewriter out a window becomes more important than his poetry. All in all, the book brings to mind a remark of Joseph Conrad's: "In plucking the fruit of memory, one runs the risk of spoiling its bloom...
...purchase some expensive gold statuettes at a bazaar, "Galbraith, smiling down on her, encouraged: 'Why not send the bill to the President?'" Concluded Ruth Montgomery, "Friends who know JFK as a close man with his own money wonder if Galbraith may not have gone too far with that remark...
...remark was characteristic of the determined attitude that Taylor has shown since he made his first appearance on the Watson ice early last fall. Just a year ago Taylor finished his first varsity season with an unspectacular total of seven points--one goal and six assists. Today he is the Crimson's second-highest scorer, behind Gene Kinasewich, and a member of the All-Ivy hockey team (second squad) and the ECAC tournament team...