Word: talked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...born there." By birth, Lodge is an authentic Massachusetts Bay Brahmin, and he can count six U.S. Senators among his ancestors.* Through a paternal great-grandmother he is allied to the Cabots, a Bostonian clan perhaps only partially maligned by the old quatrain in which "the Lowells talk only to the Cabots, and the Cabots talk only to God." The Lodge fortunes piled up in the clipper-ship days are now spread fairly thin among descendants, but when Cabot Lodge was a boy there was enough inherited money around to give life a serene comfort unmarred by any need...
...momentum of summitry continued. Every nation was busy extracting every drop of propaganda value in the negotiating, and preparing its positions for the meeting itself. Khrushchev himself made a jet flight to Peking to talk things over with Comrade Mao, who had given Soviet summit maneuverings full endorsement-but had been noticeably cool about having the talks under Security Council auspices, where Nationalist China sits-especially as Red China has never succeeded, as Warren Austin once said, in shooting its way into...
...Douglas scored on Broadway, he proves that he can do more than fire questions at TV contestants in isolation booths. In fact, he gives a smooth, consistent and convincing performance. His only serious lapse is near the close of the first act, where he has a heart-to-heart talk with his son and reminisces about his dead wife. This is hard to pull off, but the writing is so fine that it still emerges as one of the two most memorable scenes in the play. The other scene occurs later when Max, splendidly played by Bill Tierney, blusters...
There are some people who have been waiting since the demise of i.e. The Cambridge Review for hopeful signs on the Harvard magazine scene. Like the Godot sojurn, this wait has been punctuated with a good deal of talk and some potato-chip philosophizing...
Speaking first was novelist Andrew Lytle, who discussed the environment which the South has inherited. Lytle's talk was followed by Elliott's reading of three of his unpublished poems, including "Armageddon...