Word: talked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...announces that Mr.------ is ready, he enters (with wise instructions to "have some intelligent questions ready for the interviewer"), and he is ushered into a small room where the interviewer may have ashtrays and paperwork scattered about his desk and crayon drawings by his daughter on the wall. They talk about hockey, or Hemingway, or Baroque, and everyone is relieved when the interview is over...
...refreshing to talk with a person who reflects this attitude--which some cynics attribute only to "the folk." Pete Seeger is proud of the fact that he is part of the American folk, although he is probably one of the few Exeter and Harvard students to admit it. No matter how you feel about Seeger's political opinions, it is difficult to deny that his convictions are formulated from a genuine love of the human race...
...liveried footmen shoved the youth aside; half a dozen policemen knocked him to the ground and then led him away. He proved to be one Kensetsu Nakayama, a former gas-station attendant who had failed to pass two university entrance examinations. "I only wanted Akihito to get out and talk to me," he insisted at police headquarters. "I wanted to convince him that Japan should be a republic." Unaware of what genteel penury the Japanese royal family lives in, he also seemed to think that royal pomp was a heavy drain on the poor...
...wanes the six decide to compose an opera based on the afternoon's talk, and the Countess is finally left with the agonizing task of choosing between Poetry and Music- Poet and Composer. In a gently ironic ending she looks deep into her mirror and finds that she can make no choice-her two loves...
...native Mule Company of blacks, whom he keeps in line with regular floggings. In all the district his word is law, and since he is close to seven feet tall and can break a man's jaw with a swipe of his fist, he never gets any back talk. Others may want to leave Belele for a more civilized post, but not de Goltz. Half Dutch, half native, he knows that he has reached his peak, and glories in the power to flog, execute, ride herd on his three young white assistants, who fear him. When a new civil...