Word: stout
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seven speeches, in between riding from place to place in a motorcade, often standing in the open sunroof of a campaign car to flash his smile at bystanders. In the process, he has shed much of his computerlike coldness. Each evening he crawls from pub to pub, swigging stout, shooting darts and talking politics before flying back to London...
...first there was some doubt she would make it there at all. But then the stout Boy Scout commissioner and five other loyal subjects on the tiny British West Indian isle of Nevis pleaded that Queen Elizabeth II not ignore them on her month-long Caribbean tour. And so she came. As the royal yacht Britannia docked at the jetty, nearly all 13,000 Nevisians were dancing in the streets. Then with endless royal waves, Elizabeth and Prince Philip drove off through the cotton and sugarcane fields to pay a gracious call at the birthplace of one of the Crown...
Busoni did not live to see direction become destination. Worn out by half a century of continual concertizing, he died in 1924 at the age of 58. He was, in his own words, "a weak man, yet a stout wrestler, whom doubts drive hither and thither; master of thought, slave of instinct, exhausting all things, finding no answer." A Faustian figure...
Others applaud the new programs as good, if properly handled. Philadelphia County Court Judge Juanita Kidd Stout insists that "good English has no color connotation at all-pride in bad language is foolish." Psychologist Kenneth Clark sees "a great potential" if instruction is presented "in a context of dignity," not condescension-"exactly as French or Russian might be." He considers speech differences "one of the main, if superficial, racial and class irritants," but since "prejudice is made up of such little things, if one or two or three can be taken away, eventually the whole superstructure will fall...
...bittersweetly beloved Dublin, scarcely a stout was downed in his honor at Davy Byrne's, the pub he celebrated. But in Paris, at the American Center for Students and Artists, 350 partisans of James Joyce got together to celebrate the 84th anniversary of his birth. After Author Mary McCarthy, Joyce Scholar Stuart Gilbert and the rest of the cult articulately wished him a happy birthday, the ghost of James lyrically garbled everything by reciting some of Ulysses from a tape recorder...