Word: smilingly
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...opinions about art, because I don't have any," he writes, "Aesthetic concerns have played a relatively minor role in my life, and I have to smile when a critic talks, for example, of my palette." He refuses to make judgements capable of being extracted and parrotted. "I haven't seen 'L' age d'Or' since it was made, so I can't say what I think of it." He does supply fascinating incidental information. Charles de Noailles was not only expelled from the Jockey Club for Financing "L' age Dor," but threatened with excommunication. He was saved from...
Osborne tries to respond to the issue with a smile, but he admits, "It has taken a lot of the fun out of the year for me." Following a complaint that the Cornhuskers had passed too freely in the first half against Kansas State, the coach agreed, "We have sunk to new depths of depravity." He is not a man to whom laughter comes easily. Tall, rawboned, freckled, formidable, Osborne at 46 still resembles the wide receiver he became for the San Francisco 49ers after Y.A. Tittle and John Brodie convinced him that there were no openings for quarterbacks...
However, it is fair to say that Saturdays had been bleak for some time (three winning seasons in 21 years) before Devaney arrived in 1962. Unlike Osborne, he did not have to learn how to smile. On a wall of Devaney's office, now the chamber of the athletic director, two tattered hobos are in conference, and one is saying, ". . . then we lost our sixth to Keen State...
Fortune ought to smile on the career of A.N. Wilson. He is one of a fairly rare literary species: a writer of social comedies. He is also prolific-Wise Virgin, his first book to be published in this country, is his sixth novel-and very good. Not for him the extravagant mythmaking of his contemporary Salman Rushdie or the chilly experiments of Ian McEwan. Stylistically, Wilson is headed straight into the past, when a novelist told a suspenseful story and commanded his characters' souls. He can be flippant and overly mordant, but his lively wit and fine sense...
...graceful, gray-haired man with an easygoing smile, Brown is as unpretentious as a telephone repairman, perhaps because he has fixed a few phones in his time. "Hi, I'm Charlie Brown," he introduces himself. Throughout all the congressional hearings, bargaining sessions with the Government and marathon staff meetings surrounding the divestiture, he has kept a self-effacing sense of humor. On one arduous day, an employee accidentally trod on Brown's foot in an elevator at AT&T's Manhattan headquarters. "Oh, that's O.K.," Brown said. "Everybody's stepping on me nowadays...