Word: smile
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...short-story writers. Born in Johannesburg, she has lived there all her life, taking the materials for her stories and novels from the geographical environment in which she found herself. As Miss Gordimer recalls it, she grew naturally into her profession. "I've always written," she reminisces with a smile. "At the age of nine or ten I used to write my own newspaper for my own amusement--editorials, sports, society column and all." But her interest in newspaper-writing was short-lived. "I had a fear of becoming a journalist," she recollects. "I once worked for a newspaper...
...recovery, they can at least brighten the ward for a few hours each week. A dozen cheerful faces and a few movements of the "Pastorale" symphony create practically the only breaks in the monotony of the patients' lives. One of the saddest looking women in the ward managed to smile when a volunteer held her hand and asked her, "How can you be so sick and have such warm hands...
...asking smile, the reassuring kiss...
...punster who sees the laughable relations between words, but not those between people. An Indian in the present novel refers to his mother as "Sweet Sioux." A malaproping wife says that a nominal fee is "nominal in name only." At best, this sort of thing produces a sheepish smile, and at worst, a wince of embarrassment. And De Vries is no more able than any other punmaker to hold back his worst. Possibly De Vries' worst refers to a "great" comedian: "Harry has many things that make him grate...
...question is whether Kennedy will be pressured into the kind of thinking that characterized and crippled the conduct of diplomacy under Eisenhower. Man-to-man talks gave leaders valuable knowledge of each other, but they bred foolish hopes and symbolic solutions to grave problems. The personal touch, the smile to the cheering crowds, the joint communique--all are hallmarks of a tradition which thinks reassuring people more important than facing reality...