Word: reminder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Instead, all its hundreds of tine little scenes misfire, and its connective device of a nagging professor, brought in as a foil to Jack Burden, the novel's narrator, simply irritates. The whole thing resembles nothing so much as a College Outline of the book, and only serves to remind one of how very good the book...
...taken by Grace's beauty that he said. "Welcome to the White House, Princess," then turned away before remembering that her husband was there too. He wheeled around and added: "And you too, Prince." When he met Nikita Khrushchev in Vienna, Powers had a problem: "I had to remind myself not to smile," he says. "That's pretty hard when you are used to smiling...
...rout of U.S. forces by the Chinese Communists, so poignantly described by S.L.A. Marshall in The River and the Gauntlet. But Leckie believes that the war was worth its high cost of 33,629 American lives. "In Korea." he writes, "invasion was repelled, and in such manner as to remind the world that an invader need not be destroyed to be repulsed.To gnash one's teeth because the invader escaped destruction is to revert to that concept of 'total war' which is no longer possible without mutual total destruction. Of Korea, then, it is enough...
...brick houses of Beacon Hill remain to remind us of the glory that once was Boston's. Louisburg Square, with its 22 houses set around a little garden in the center, best reflects the serenity, the calm, assured optimism, the decorous propriety of the Brahmins of yore. The pattern of these houses is English; No. 20 Louisburg Square was used for the filming of Thackeray's Vanity Fair...
Though the signs outside identified it as a hotel, the Cavendish was no place for the unsuspecting tourist. Most strangers who ventured into the dim, cluttered lobby at 82 Jermyn Street were sternly told to try elsewhere. Others, if they were lucky enough to remind the proprietress of some long-vanished Victorian buck or Bostonian pooh-bah, would be clasped to her shapely bosom and regaled with surrealistic reminiscences about old Lord Droopy Drawers and Lady You-Know-'Oo, or "the time we went to Ireland on roller skates...