Word: sitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hungarian rebellion for Khrushchev. Last June, when the Malenkov-Molotov-Kaganovich forces mustered a majority in the Presidium, it was. Zhukov who saved Khrushchev by throwing the army's support to him. As a reward, he was named to the Presidium itself, the first professional soldier ever to sit in the ruling body of the Communist Party...
...through modern America's bohemia, the book is amusing and entertaining. There are plenty of weird characters to titillate you a la Auntie Mame. But like any sight-seeing excursion, it is also very tiring. Even Kerouac seems to tire of spending a paragraph or two on people who sit around shooting benzedrine tubes at each other with an air gun. Toward the end of the book he contents himself with describing one party by listing names: "'Dean?' I yelled across the party--which included Angel Luz Garcia, the poet; Walter Evans; Victor Villanueva, the Veneauelan poet; Jinny Jones...
...always arrived everywhere at night," Fenyvesi remarks, while Heimler laments that "we coudn't even see the Statue of Liberty." Many of them were met by journalists and photographers. "My first impression of American," one refugee student relates, "was of American photographers and reporters. Their first act was to sit on the table or put their feet up. I thought this was a common American social custom...
...Kilgallen reached all the way to "fatigued incandescence." Prince Philip himself summed up the problem sympathetically in a chat with a knot of newsmen at the British embassy garden party. The reporters in the royal wake, he noted, "press and press and work all day and then, when they sit down to write it, find they have nothing .to write about." But with the vigor that Elizabeth admired, they wrote it just the same, and wrote it, and wrote it again...
...about race-only not so boring." drifts through the years giving and going to dull parties. It seems to her that she is endlessly playing in an endless movie. People answer the phone the way actors do in second-rate films; they smoke, quarrel, make love or small talk, sit and stand and posture just as if a director were cueing every scene...