Word: reminders
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...soaked when it comes charging down a dry canal. Walks out. Shot of his feet. Curses his leaky Florsheims. And then up walks director Polanski as a short little tough with a foreign accent, who puts a knife in the detective's nostril and makes a little slice to remind him not to be nosey...
...Leadership can be developed and improved by study and training," General Omar Bradley once told a class at the Army Command and General Staff College in Fort Leavenworth, Kans. "But don't discount experience. Someone may remind you that Napoleon led armies before he was 30 and Alexander the Great died at 33. Alexander might have been even greater if he had lived to an older age and had had more experience. In this respect, I especially like [the] theory that 'judgment comes from experience and experience comes from bad judgment...
Even if little comes of his advice, history may yet judge Solzhenitsyn a success-and not merely in the realm of art. For he is surely one of those towering witnesses thrown up by history (or God) in moments of crisis to remind the world that the pursuit of material progress is no way to the peace that passes understanding. For the first tune, though, that message may concern survival as well as salvation...
...hands. In a style reminiscent of Charles de Gaulle, he has been touring the country, combining stops at military barracks with eloquent speeches in town squares. The general's whistle-stopping seems to have three main goals: to build up a personal following directly with the masses, to remind the army that its loyalty should be to him and not to the revolutionary captains who led the coup, and to warn the anarchic left that he will use force if necessary to keep order. Some military officers are unhappy about Spinola's blatant power grab, but there...
...findings of Labor Expert Doris B. McLaughlin that professional women are often exploitive of their maids [May 6] remind me of a story of a slave in ancient Rome. Upon being informed that his master, newly converted to Christianity, was soon to set all his slaves free, the man discussed with some of his fellows what each was going to do. While his fellow slaves had all kinds of ideas, his own was, "I'll buy two slaves to take care...