Word: smile
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...least part of their great secret is that they both live in the same country. White and black have shared that secret for a long time now, and have done an efficient job of keeping it from each other. The smile that connected John Grimes and the old man, while pleasant enough for the occasion, was historically speaking a lapse of judgment, a slip of the heart. If Baldwin had been writing news instead of fiction, John might never have thought to apologize, and the old man might have swung his cane like a war club...
...where they are taken least seriously: in the fiction and poems of black writers, where as art they may be both revealed and camouflaged simultaneously. That passage in Go Tell It on the Mountain, for instance. Moving as it is, it makes the point that despite their shared smile and great secret, the black boy and the white man do not speak or meet again...
Those who follow college basketball had to smile when Clean Gene decided the national spotlight was too hard on his eyes a few years back and walked away from the UCLA job. Poor Gene just couldn't stand the pressure of coaching in John Wooden's shadow, of defending all those national titles. He said he guessed it suited him better to start a program from scratch, build it up himself...
...reporter with a staccato style. Will he be able, like Cronkite, to leave a steadying impression of calm underneath all the turmoil of the news? In Rather's eagerness to keep his commitment to 60 Minutes too, he has been taping so many segments in advance that his smile has lately seemed a little tenser. He also knows that around CBS there were those who would have preferred Roger Mudd (who, being passed over, defected to NBC) or the amiable Charles Kuralt, whose CBS morning news has become something of a hit. The other two networks are also...
...falls in love with a presentable man who would rather pine after her from afar than marry her. Complains the heroine of the title story: "Jacob wanted a grand event-something you would never forget but not something to live with. I wanted something to live with." In The Smile Beneath the Smile, a woman frets over the behavior of her hot-and-cold-running lover: "Andrew, if she agreed to see him again, would conduct their meetings like a series of two-car collisions. He would say he loved her and leave early...