Word: slights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Breakfast in Bed. In favorable country a trail four or five days old took Schaller to the gorillas within a few hours. Sometimes they fled when they saw him, but usually they showed mild interest and only slight fear. After a few encounters, Schaller and the animals were on the best of terms. He often crept close while they were bedding down for the night, and he slept less than 100 ft. away. He reports restfully that they never snore. But wide awake they are far from silent. Sometimes they purr like large contented cats, and for special occasions they...
Ottaviani did not have to finish; with one voice the crowd shouted back the last name: "Montini! Montini!" Smiling broadly, Ottaviani completed his traditional announcement: ". . . who has taken the name of Paul VI." There were gasps and applause. Then, as the slight (5 ft. 10 in., 154 Ibs.), erect new Pope, his white-cassocked figure almost engulfed beneath a broad red stole, stepped out to give his first blessing to the city and to the world, he was greeted by a thunderous shout that welled up from the sea of waving handkerchiefs. His graceful, austere gestures reminded many of Pius...
Caricature, Not Character. For all his crimes, Messkirch is a sympathetic character. Not so the chief character of The Birthday King, by British Novelist Gabriel Fielding. Ruprecht Weidmann is the scion of a wealthy manufacturing family that has a slight admixture of Jewish blood and is trying desperately to get into Hitler's good graces. A cold opportunist, Ruprecht commits his anti-Nazi brother to a concentration camp, drowns a companion, betrays a business associate who is plotting against Hitler, sends off a dozen of his factory workers to serve as medical guinea pigs. Ruprecht is a kind...
...dropping clues in an ever-lengthening paper chase which seems to lead straight through the potting shed into a paradoxical garden where loss of faith is somehow proof of God's existence. The latest is a new short story called A Visit to Morin. Presented along with a slight bouquet of recent literary Greenery, Morin is fascinating (and likely to draw more attention than the other stories in the book) precisely because it seems to carry Greene a razor's edge closer to despair than did A Burnt-Out Case, his most recent novel...
...level. Shapiro estimates that the average student loan would be paid back in ten years. The deficit created by a minority of defaulters and former students who fail to reach the pay-back income level would be met by assessing prospering graduates above the $5,500 income level a slight additional percentage that would be siphoned into the communal kitty...