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...likes to test your mettle by setting you some impossible challenge, then sitting back to watch you disentangle yourself. In any case, she put me in charge of a fast-melting frozen custard while she went to find one of her kittens. I got frozen custard on the rug, in my shoes, on the dog, on the front door and part of the terrace before I was rescued. Now, when I see her, Caroline gives me that look you get from people who have taken your measure and found you a button or two short...
...Washington Star hoped that the "long-neglected problem" of federal parking would not be "swept under the rug." The New York Daily News advised Kennedy to staff his State Department with reliable anti-Communists such as Victor (I Chose Freedom) Kravchenko and Princess Alexandra Kropotkin. "Of course, President Kennedy can buddy up to Castro and Khrushchev," said the News, "but if he does, he'll brand himself as a dishonest man, to say nothing of giving the criminal Communist conspiracy a powerful assist in its drive to enslave the human race. Somehow, we can't picture Kennedy being...
Poetry, as Archibald MacLeish sees it, is a little like a man who shuffles across a familiar rug and touches a doorknob, only to be pricked by an unexpected spark of static electricity. In that instant, two things happen. For one, the man "understands" electricity not as a textbook diagram, but as a felt experience "charged with meaning." For another, three disparate things-the man, the rug, the doorknob-have been fused with one of the cosmic forces. They have become, in MacLeish's view, links in the underlying order at the heart of the universe, which men instinctively...
Former Secretary of State Dean Acheson, whose Harvard accent is known to have impressed former President Truman, has now made a speech urging in effect that the United States pull the rug out from under Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek on Formosa...
Cleopatra was once rendered unto Caesar in a rug, but today she is wrapped up in an insurance policy. Before 20th Century-Fox began filming Cleopatra early this fall, the studio spent an estimated $390,000 in premiums for a Lloyd's of London standard policy covering possible delays. Then production got under way in a spectacular, 8½-acre, open-air reproduction of Alexandria, just west of London. But in the title role, Elizabeth Taylor turned out to be little more than queen...