Word: scotching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...much trimmer at 74, ambled through another kitchenware show, Moscow's International Household and Services Equipment Fair. With Wife Nina, Nikita Sergeevich swapped memories and jokes with fairgoers and, though avoiding the U.S. Pavilion, strolled over to the British exhibit, where he reluctantly turned down a bottle of Scotch after Nina chirped in English, "Oh, no. He does not drink any more." That ban does not apply to suds, however, so when Nikita visited those decadent, bourgeois revisionists, the Czechs, he quaffed Pilsner and instructed his hosts to "give my regards to President Svoboda, with whom I fought...
...poet-translator who pulled one of U.S. history's most successful literary put-ons; in Santa Fe, N. Mex. Disgusted with the imagist, expressionist and futurist schools of poetry, Bynner in 1916 founded a spurious "spectrist school." Helped by fellow poet Arthur Ficke and a bottle of Scotch a day, he produced in ten days a volume called Spectra, which was praised for two years by eminent critics for such spoofy lines...
...including visits to the Holy Land, Bombay and New York City. This August he will undertake his longest voyage yet-to Bogotá, Colombia, more than 11,000 miles round trip from the Vatican, to attend the 39th International Eucharistic Congress. One result of his journey will be to scotch rumors that he's been in fragile health. But the Pontiff's deepest hope is to show the Latin American church, beset by declining prestige and a drastic shortage of priests, that he has not forgotten it. "All the roads of the world," said he, "are open...
...sincerity is tremendous. He shows his Maoist leanings symbolically: the tiny bourgeois Scotch terrior seen playing throughout the film is in the end dwarfed by the powerful German shepherds the Maoists use to break up a Socialist meeting. When we finally see Carlos, it takes no great subtlety to wonder who is leading who. The bourgeois takes inventory of his books, and The History of China is followed by The Hope of Italy...
...purest "oldtime" form, the music echoed the authentic Scotch-Irish folk heritage of the area. This is the style that has been passed from generation to generation on isolated farms where music is about the only recreation that doesn't smack of sin. The group that won the $25 prize as the best oldtime band, the Blue Ridge Boys of Winston-Salem, N.C., learned all of their music "from relatives" and are duly modest about their accomplishments: asked why he though the band had won, Banjoist Paul Idol replied Well, we all started on a tune exactly...