Word: smile
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...microwave smile that warms another person without heat. His feeling for America is long and loving. Milton Eisenhower, the last of that remarkable cluster of Kansas boys, turned 80 the other day and wished he could sculpt a U.S. President out of proven parts. He would weld his brother Dwight's heart bone to Franklin Roosevelt's head bone. What a work of political art that might be, he chuckles...
...assigned role as Stalin's propagandist. He cut a surprisingly frail figure on the dais at the Starlight Roof, where he was seen to light cigarette after cigarette with trembling hands. His face was at the mercy of twitches and tics, his lips were drawn in an unconvincing smile. A translator read his speech for him; it attacked both U.S. warmongers and Igor Stravinsky, and praised the "unheard-of scope and level of development reached by musical culture in the U.S.S.R." Throughout the reading, the convulsive working of the composer's mouth and cheek betrayed an almost uncontrollable...
...formalist, a representative of an antinational direction in music. My music was banned, and now I was supposed to go and say that everything was fine. Finally I agreed. People sometimes say that it must have been an interesting trip, look at the way I'm smiling in the photographs. That was the smile of a condemned man. I felt Like a dead man. I answered all the idiotic questions in a daze, and thought, When I get back it's over for me. Stalin liked leading Americans by the nose that way. Well, why say lead...
Standing hunched over against the wind as yesterday's matches wound down, Felske spoke about Harvard's hosting the Ivy Championships in April and the Eastern Regionals in May. Amidst chattering teeth he managed a smile and added, "and then there's the nationals...
...dominated most of Shikasta, a multitude of different races, cultures, and religions which, on the whole, were superior to that of the oppressors." Such polemics alternate with passages of aching poignancy: "The lowest, the most downtrodden, the most miserable of Shikastans will watch the wind moving a plant, and smile; will plant a seed and watch it grow; will stand to watch the life of the clouds. Or lie pleasurably awake in the dark, hearing wind howl that cannot - not this time - harm him where he lies safe. This is where strength has always welled, irrepressibly, into every creature...