Word: spokes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Thai was always quite genial and smiled incessantly. In particular, he enjoyed talking about the economic progress which South Vietnam has experienced despite the war. When asked to elaborate, he spoke of the significant build-up of urban light industries. Vietnam's three spinning mills have increased from 60,000 spindles in 1960 to 100,000 today. Thai also cited the development of paper factories, chemical and cement complexes, and a coal mine which has been started in the middle of a Communist-dominated area. These industries are examples of what Thai calls "more active participation of the people...
...spoke too soon. In 1736 she ran off to Venice with a dreamily beautiful but coldly ambisextrous adventurer, to whom she wrote 26 stormy love letters that appear for the first time in these volumes. Soon jilted, Lady Mary stayed on in Italy until, at 72, she announced: "I am dragging my ragged remnant of life to England." When she arrived, half of London turned out to inspect the legendary monster. Her vivacity was so great that nobody guessed she was dying of cancer. To Lady Mary herself, death was a matter of indifference. "I have lived long enough...
...descriptions of heightened or distorted senses, a number of students spoke of sexual intercourse as being "unbelievably beautiful" while both mates are under the influence of either pot or LSD. "It's not only that your senses and appetites are sharpened, and that one become uninhabited, but one feels a special sense of community and understanding which makes the act so much more enjoyable." Another student mentioned that he became particularly aware of conflicting drives while he was on LSD, especially the sexual drive. As he described it in Freudian terms: "the id surfaced and discharged its libido...
Until recently, many American humorists obeyed that caveat by looking the other way when the subject was raised, or treating the whole thing as a joke. Robert Benchley spoke for most of his colleagues when he lampooned the scientific students of humor with his dictum: "We must understand that all sentences which begin with W are funny." Well, something unfunny has happened to American humor. Today the humorists are outexamining the examiners, some of them even making second careers as commentators who probe and pontificate on the radio and TV panels that ceaselessly sift American manners, morals and mores...
Randy Lindel, as the colleen's Missituckian beau, and Peter Houghteling, as the bigoted legislator, Billboard Rawkins, were adequate but little more. William Hodes, as Og, the rightful owner of Finian's gold, displayed a physique as unelvishly robust as his singing voice (he spoke in a coy falsetto). Other members of the cast, however, were more successful...