Word: smiled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Prefers Home. In the next room, in a huge parlor with a cathedral ceiling, Muriel Humphrey reflects on her husband's new self-acceptance and happiness. "Now they want him," she says with a smile and soft voice. "People actually get mad at me when I say we aren't eager. They resent it. Before, we always had to fight our way uphill...
...takes some prodding to get Will to discuss his general philosophical outlook. Asked what his major intellectual influences have been, he says with a slight, sardonic smile, "That's an invitation to be pompous or obscure. If you say Irving Kristol and Aristotle, you're probably both." But he admits to being a conservative, with some qualification. "That's a somewhat richer and more complicated tradition than some conservatives. I'm not a Lockean. I'm more a Burkean," he says, distinguishing himself from other more libertarian conservatives like Barry Goldwater and Milton Friedman. Of the former, he observes...
...other side of the ring, Carl Weatherman is splendidly self-confident as the black Apollo who is seen first through his proper medium, the T.V. And Thayer David flashes the false smile of a true promoter, his waxy face cracking as he realizes that Rocky has taken the fight to heart...
...they reached Mao's grandniece, Wang Hai-jung, a vice minister who arranged Kissinger's meeting with Mao in October, Kissinger leaned over to her and said: "I suppose you are going to ask us to make a formal request to see the Chairman." He got a smile. "Put your mind at ease," said Madame Wang. Mao summoned them the next...
...plant, along with Schenectady, and also a Chrysler factory, and thousands of cluttered plots of working homes. Farm country from there to Rochester, and with luck it's dark by then, and you don't have to see the farm on the right where the huge painted yellow smile button pollutes the side of a silo for people to point to and pass ten seconds interacting about whooshing east and west all year every single solitary...