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...Lifeman happens to be a writer, he knows how to disarm the critics, e.g., one Lifeman dedicated his book "TO PHYLLIS, in the hope that one day God's glorious gift of sight may be restored to her," which made the reviewers feel it would be rude to pan the book. (They did not know that Phyllis was the author's 96-year-old great-grandmother.) Smart writership includes the use of "O.K.-words," e.g., diathesis, mystique, and classique, and deference to O.K. fellow writers, meaning chiefly Kafka and Rilke (who, "it is believed . . . will still be absolutely...
...Some sceptic [may ask], 'Ha, ha! but what is the U.S.A. getting out of it? ... He would look for the catch rather than for the faith. I will tell you what the U.S.A. is putting into it . . . Marshall Aid to the end of 1950 has cost every crude, rude, grasping, vulgar, selfish, racketeering American fifteen shillings ($2.10) a week out of his back pocket...
...Rude questions and charges of Egyptian aggression in Israel, from several listeners, were parried by Mahmoud Fawzl Boy, Egyptian Ambassador to the United States and Permanent Representative to the United Nations, after his speech at Littauer last night...
Saturdays open up larger vistas: you can follow Paul Revere's routh around Concord and Lexington, with a side trip to the "rude bridge that arched the food." Or you can drop in on the domain of Henry D. Thoreau, 1837, at Walden Pond and stay for a drip. Or, two bucks will get you a Youth Hostel Card that will make a weekend trip to Gloucester or the Cape a cinch...
...French cracked down hard. General Jacques Leclerc's troops occupied Fez. Istiqlal leaders were imprisoned. The French labeled the Istiqlal as an Axis agency. It was a rude awakening for the nationalists...