Word: speaks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Glubb's stature among desert Arabs does not depend on his height. He won it by learning to speak Arabic fluently, by scrupulously observing their customs and courtesies, by being firm but smiling and unassuming. At meals he squats on his haunches with them, dipping greasy fingers into the communal dish, kusi, a mound of rice and sour milk topped with a roast sheep stuffed with rice and dates...
Koerner's work, too, is theatrical. He illuminates almost every scene with the pitiless white glare of stage lighting-never sunlight or moonlight-and his actors move and speak with exaggerated force. These devices, skillfully employed, make Koerner's paintings more arresting than those of such established U.S. realists as Philip Evergood and Ben Shahn. But they are not enough to explain his disturbing power. Koerner's storytelling art is one of implication, and its very theatricalism serves to imply that the "real" world which man has made is equally a fabric of illusions...
...evenings, Slater and Britten cycled to the local pub to drink beer and play darts. Says Mrs. Slater: "I had to make a rule they should speak to me at mealtimes...
...Friday morning, after another sharp dip, U.S. grain prices rallied. Some grain speculators thought the worst might be over. Richard Uhlmann, president of the Board of Trade, thought it was safe to speak some reassuring words for a CBS broadcast. As he finished speaking, an assistant rushed up and cried: "The rally's oyer! Corn fell 8? while you were talking...
...University of New Mexico, it was obvious that he would not fit in. An aloof man with a Dewey mustache, a high recommendation from Harvard's President Conant, and a belief that all he was asked to do was to run a good university, he declined invitations to speak at Rotary clubs, could not bring himself to gladhand state politicos. He angered the faculty by polling the students to find out which professors they respected and which they considered dullards. Even when he joined a faculty barbershop quartet and tried to sing in harmony, New Mexicans decided that...