Word: sternly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...place or one word that could be taken out." She took her characters just as hard: "I've stood for hours on the Auckland Wharf. I've been out in the stream waiting to be berthed-I've been a seagull hovering at the stern and a hotel porter whistling through his teeth." In a handful of stories, notably Bliss, Prelude and The Garden-Party, she came near passing her only test: perfection. She also achieved what Henry James regarded as fiction's ultimate goal, "a direct impression of life...
Nationality known sportscaster Bill Stern, assisted by Ray Michaels, will handle the telecast of the Harvard-Dartmouth game today, starting at 1:55 p.m. This is will be the Crimson's only video appearance this year. PROBABLE STARTING LINEUPS DARTMOUTH HARVARD Thieischer (203) LE (180) Crowley Rambour (230) LT (216) Nichois Thornton (200) LG (201) Pappas Papantones (195) C (192) Lemay Reich (200) RG (200) Manos Jones (225) RT (202) Thompson McDonald (210) RE (184) Rate Miller (170) QB (190) O'Nell Curtis (179) LHB (170) Healey Collins (165) RHB (165) Tulenko Jennison (200) FBTab>(192) Ossman...
Just why that should be so is the core of Author Stern's Capitalism in America, a book which contains some of the best small-arms fire in defense of the American way of life since the shots fired at Concord. Author Stern couches his arguments in the form of lively, colloquial letters to a mythical young European intellectual named Henry, who is thinking of turning Communist...
Shake Hands? A friend's chauffeur gave him one clue to the answer. After driving Stern from New York to Washington, the chauffeur impulsively shot out his hand for a shake, smiled and said he was "pleased to make my acquaintance." Anywhere in class-conscious Europe, the handshake would have been a terrible gaffe for both of them. Another "new American" told Stern how astonished he had been "when an old workman in a factory patted the president of the company on the back, called him by his first name and offered him a cigar." To German-born Stern...
...year-old Stern, misguided Henry is very real, a composite of several young Europeans who have swallowed the Communist myth about the U.S. because they have never had a taste of the real thing. "Maybe we can save their souls," says Stem hopefully. Thai is also the hope of Radio Free Europe and the Voice of America, which are planning to broadcast the letters to all the Henrys within earshot...