Word: talked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Allies Help. Against this array Dulles fought a tireless battle. Though Chinese Communists had shown no interest in real negotiations at Warsaw, Dulles ordered U.S. Ambassador Jacob Beam to talk with them again this week. In Manhattan he consulted with Britain's Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd,*who gave a diplomatic dinner for Russian U.N. Delegate Andrei Gromyko to urge Moscow pressure on Peking for peaceful settlement. Dulles met privately with Lloyd and French Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville, who began making the Western case in U.N. for an effective cease-fire in the Formosa Strait...
...ribbons or pulled switches on new projects, some of them started by his predecessor, Tom Dewey. He funneled money into new roads and schools, did it without substantially increasing taxes. Gaunt, autocratic Averell Harriman, turning 67 and testy, even learned to chuckle while chucking babies and trading supermarket small talk. As the 1958 election approached, Harriman's party was out of the financial red; his opponents for the moment were out of worthwhile candidates and issues. Honest Ave took a confident, proprietary grip on the ugly, Victorian Governor's mansion...
...discovery that his daughter has been seduced diverts him for a while from his idee fixe, and he rants and mourns like a character out of Dumas fils. There is some talk about his ordering the errant one out of his house, and then a while later he observes lugubriously, "You have just given me the greatest sorrow of my life." Of course the daughter has not selected just anybody to perform the act of darkness with, and we are treated to the unveiling of the structure of interlocking copulations which is usual in second-rate French drama. We also...
Dulles came to Harvard last Sunday to speak to the Fellows of the International Research Center, visitors from parts of the United States and foreign countries who are at the Center to pursue advanced studies. A few professors were invited to listen to his talk, and participated in the discussion. The seminar was not public...
...They [the chapters] proceed from my feeling that the greatest novels (as compared with the greatest poems or plays) seldom receive the full technical analysis they deserve, and the full, not casual rendering of theme. My aim is to talk as rigorously and fully as some critics talk about poems...