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...relaxed rules don't necessarily lead to the type of misbehaviour which Dorothy Parker immortalized in her famous remark about the Carnival. As the bright young man with the big green sweater told us, "The Carnival isn't a sex weekend, it's too cold...
...White House aide could remember, it was the first time that Harry Truman had mentioned Stalin by name in public since his famous back-platform remark in Eugene, Ore., during the 1948 campaign. Then he had affectionately admitted that "I like old Joe," and hopefully added: "He is a decent fellow, but he is a prisoner of the Politburo." Now the President was tagging Stalin as a so-and-so in his own right...
Cryano comments early in Rostand's play that "there are certain things a man does well to carry to extremes." In the Universal Artists production of "Cyrano de Bergerac," Jose Ferrer seems to base his whole interpretation on this remark, for he plays the noble Gascon as a composite of exaggerated traits. The results often comes dangerously close to being a caricature rather than an elucidation of Cyrano's character...
...civilized man, an intellectual snob, with a snob's best qualities-stubborn convictions, a confidence in his own discrimination, and a certainty about his own judgment that would not let him turn his back on fellow Harvardman Alger Hiss, even after Hiss had been convicted. His famous Hiss remark (which he carefully rehearsed with aides before uttering to the press) is defended by his admirers as loyalty toward a friend, but it was the height of impropriety in a Secretary of State...
...Times had called the theft "a coarse and vulgar crime," and the BBC had banned all jokes mentioning the Stone, including the remark that no Scot could have taken the Stone because no Scot would have left a wrist watch behind. Said the Manchester Guardian: "Need we English be much wounded by the loss of the Stone, if it is never recovered? We have a far better and more respectable one of our own, the King's Stone, now at Kingston-on-Thames, on which the Saxon Kings were crowned...