Word: sayings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week both sides did say something. At a press conference in Tunis, big, stoop-shouldered M'hammed Yazid, "Minister of Information" in the rebels' provisional government, stepped forward. "We regret to declare." he announced, "that the provisional government of the Algerian Republic does not presently see any prospect for peace in Algeria." Yazid went on to warn off Standard Oil of New Jersey, which had just negotiated oil-exploration rights in the Algerian Sahara with the French. "Our people are not tied by deals concluded with the enemy." warned Yazid, "and consider them an act of hostility...
...tennis well enough to reach the quarterfinals of the Newport Invitational when he was 16. He prepared for the match (against Wilmer Allison) by drinking till dawn, then amazed himself by taking a 4-1 lead in the second set. At this point his hangover caught up with him. Says Cushing: "I had a total blackout. When I tried to throw the ball up for service, I almost went flat on my face. At least that's my story. My friends say Allison looked at his watch, noticed that it was nearly lunchtime, and quickly ran off five straight...
...Biographer Justino Fernandez: "Orozco is hard on God at the Day of Judgment, because he felt that the punishments meted out to sinful men were too severe." ¶ Dealer Inés Amor: "He hated mankind, if ever a man did. 'All Indians,' he used to say, 'are ugly.' Why was he bitter? Because of his life, his failures, his poverty, his obsessive inferiority complex." ¶ Writer Alma Reed: "He had compassion and humanity above all other painters. He was a great mathematician, a great engineer, a great architect." ¶ Painter "Dr. Atl": "Orozco never...
...Letter). Between assignments she lives with husband Denis O'Dea, a dental student turned actor, and their ten-year-old son in a four-story Georgian house in Dublin. The blunt matter-of-factness she displayed as Maggie Wylie last week belongs in large measure to Siobhan McKenna. Says she: "I'm a party girl, but if I have a hangover, I take nothing for it; I want to know how hung over I am." Her forthright opinions are famed among her friends. Some samples: ¶ On Catholicism: "I believe every word." ¶On money...
...almost every material blessing, Levine finds the U.S.S.R. far behind the U.S. But where Russia is ahead, he does not hesitate to say so, e.g., Russian autos have a "clock on the dashboard that almost invariably tells the correct time...