Word: rightness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...banged along toward the Jail of the Lost Child, Tacuba Cemetery or Mercy Slaughterhouse, Mexicans heard as usual the consoling plunk-plunk of the minstrels' guitars, and the familiar words borne long ago by the wind that swept Mexico: // 7 am to die tomorrow, Let them kill me right away...
...military regimes," says Miller, "but you can't withdraw your ambassador, either. On the other hand, in a positive way you can show your solidarity with a country like Chile, which has a stable and democratic regime that should be encouraged. You can do a lot with the right approach...
...poster and was moved to anger, not pity. Says Kruger: "That well-meaning poster destroyed a lot of dignity. It was asking for sympathy-one thing an amputee gets and doesn't want." Kruger knew what he was talking about; at 13 he had lost his right arm in a mine accident. The poster crystallized his determination to form a self-help organization for amputees...
...prices were right: the market in Dutch and Flemish old masters has stayed fairly steady for the last 20 years. But something was missing. Only 70 paintings, less than half of the once-great Schloss collection, had been recovered. The best of the collection, more than 100 canvases including a Frans Hals, a Pieter Bruegel and four Rembrandts were still missing...
...Right Role. In the genteel bedlam of Manhattan's Cafe Society (six nights a week, after the curtain rings down on South Pacific), she was making her own solo hit. Slick-haired, flat-faced Juanita just hauled off from the microphone, braced her 61 inches and 165 pounds, and let the customers have it in a full, strong voice that ranged easily from deep purple to high yellow. She moaned Am I Blue and her own Lament over Love, and usually she gave them Bali Ha'i and Happy Talk, her South Pacific hits. Offstage, she had nothing...