Word: talked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many Formosans want complete independence for their island-to be gained by revolution or any other means. Others talk of "autonomy under a good Chinese government," neither Nationalist nor Communist. A third group favors a U.S. mandate...
...University of Illinois' James Garfield Randall, 68, most scholarly of the Lincoln biographers (Lincoln and the South; Lincoln the Liberal Statesman), a mild and modest man who could usually be found on Sunday evenings in his kitchen, making talk and scrambled eggs for his favorite students. From other historians Randall won respect, though not always agreement. A Lincolnian with Southern sympathies, he scorned the school that looked upon the Civil War as an "irrepressible conflict," chose to regard the war as the tragic error of an emotional and "blundering generation...
...reported pre-game pep talk to his "Praying Colonels": "Boys, when you go out there on the field, never forget that every one of those Harvard fellows votes the straight Republican ticket...
...manufacturer of beach wear, and Ricardo Montalban, a South American polo player. Their love story produces only one good piece of entertainment: a lively little song called Baby, It's Cold Outside, which is already well established as a jukebox hit. Between the long, arid stretches of talk, Betty Garrett and Red Skelton supply some shorter sketches of acceptable slapstick. The rest of the show, including a razzle-dazzle water ballet at the end, lumbers along like an overdressed float in a Mardi Gras parade...
Robert Frost was 38 before he ever sat down with another poet to talk about poetry. That was in London; the poet was Ezra Pound; the poetry was Edwin Arlington Robinson's "Miniver Cheevy." "I remember," Frost said many years later, "the pleasure with which Pound and I laughed over the fourth 'thought...