Word: smile
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...goes: on from her salad days in vaudeville, through the incessant confrontations with celebrity ("She made Calvin Coolidge smile"), the endless charity appearances, and the amiable little extraversions (she once gratified an impulse "to feel a lion," reported that "he was very handsome"). In the end the audience sees her in the yellow leaf of her eighth decade, as she lives and works now with her second companion, Polly Thompson, in their Connecticut home-drying dishes, following her guide rail for a walk in the fields, choring through the morning mail, touching music in a radio, caught reading a volume...
...Eternal Smile & Other Stories, by Par Lagerkvist. A fine collection of stories and fables from the inventive mind of the Swedish Nobel Prizewinner, ranging from childish charm to ghostlike horror (TIME, June...
...simple one-year extension of Reciprocal Trade Agreements authority. What the Administration got Reed probably could not have bottled up anyway; social security has the fond approval of most Congressmen, and a majority of Reed's committee already wanted the one-year trade-agreement extension. With the contented smile of a cat after swallowing the canary, Dan Reed proclaimed: "I'm part of the Administration." Maple & Vine. Democrats saw a way to make political hay of the President's abrupt retreat. Tennessee's Freshman Senator Albert Gore announced that he would try to substitute the Randall...
...Chinese Victory. In this easy bargaining climate. Chou seemed to have got all he wanted for the price of a bland Communist smile. He pitched a glib appeal for the leadership of Asia on the familiar "Asia for the Asians" theme, and the Indians cheered him. Chou made no concessions to Nehru. He reassured those who worry about Communist infiltration by declaring that "revolutions cannot be exported." Perhaps Chou's greatest triumph was the size of India's welcome itself-the biggest accorded a foreigner since independence...
...have meant something . . . We must demand a complete understanding of everything." At last, forced to be more specific, God muttered: "I only intended that you need never be content with nothing." "God's" answer is the answer of Sweden's Par Lagerkvist in his story The Eternal Smile. Winner of the 1951 Nobel Prize for literature, Lagerkvist (age 63) is the author of more than 35 books, including the novels Bar abbas and The Dwarf, and scores of plays, essays and poems. His tone ranges from near-ecstasy to heavy gloom, but in one matter he is always...