Word: smiled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...well-qualified practitioner of the art supplied an answer at a doctors' meeting in Manhattan. Said Poet Wystan H. Auden, 63: "To enable people a little better to enjoy life, or a little better to endure it." What is a minor poet? The furrowed face broke into a smile: "If you take two poems by one man and read them, and you can't tell which was written first, that is a minor poet." The subject of education evoked another satisfyingly sweeping statement: "Political history is far too criminal a subject to be a fit thing to teach...
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...from the monks' verbal barbs, some have been shaken. "We want no curse on us-period," says an electric-power-company executive. Despite such grumbling, no one has legally attacked the cursers. "If any of the corporations concerned wanted to sue us," says one mendicant with a wry smile, "they would have to begin by establishing themselves as the polluters mentioned in our incantations." Tokyo Psychologist Kazuo Shimada explains the industrialists' nervousness: "We Japanese all have a tinge of mysticism in our blood and tend to be vulnerable in one way or another to such occultism...
...Aviv last week, U.S. Ambassador Walworth Barbour recently said to her: "Look here, Mrs. Meir, we've established that Israel is not a satellite of the U.S. Now I think we ought to make it clear that the U.S. is not a satellite of Israel." With a smile, Golda told the party members: "I had no choice but to agree...
...Profile, smile, voice, build−the man fairly vibrates with star quality, yet here he was rehearsing merely as Narrator for a performance of Dickens' A Christmas Carol being staged by the Robert F. Kennedy Theater for Children. Naturally he would have preferred a juicier role−Scrooge, for instance. "I'd be the best Scrooge in town," said New York City's Mayor John V. Lindsay, currently engaged in cutting back city salaries and jobs in an economy campaign. "If I'm described by people that way, I might as well play the part...