Word: taller
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gross historical error in his essay on the Irish [June 20]. He asserts that the small Irish farmer could not even think about sex after 1662. What nonsense! The fact is that my great-grandfather Andrew Bowen, who was born in 1732, was a small Irish farmer (three inches taller than Keats) and thought about sex all the time. He thought about it with the kine in the byre, with the peat in the bog and with the kelp on the strand; and sometimes at night he would rouse himself on his pallet with a dreadful groan, exclaiming...
...several scenes, the main French characters are a foot taller than usual owing to the use of stilted boots. And they wear modified hockey outfits complete with shinguards--in a properly Gallic blue, be it said. I suppose all this is to emphasize the enormous odds facing the outnumbered British. When conversing with the British, the French speak English with a French accent. When the French talk among themselves, however, Kahn has provided them with a French translation of Shakespeare's text. While they spout French, a man and woman at the downstage extremities simultaneously speak the English version into...
...Styron wears respectable blue suits with lots of buttons, he knows how to light a cigar still moist from the humidor, and he answers questions in a matter of fact way. He is broad and tall, perhaps six feet, but he appears even taller, without being overwhelming. He has an impressive head of grey-black-white hair, combed straight back. And, for all his size, he has that cultured look of American aristocracy. If you catch his face from just the right angle, a side view from behind the ear, there is a trace of John Lindsay...
...large head, elongated trunk and short, often bowed legs." Japanese tourists, he recalled, often have to pay twice as much as other foreigners for a prostitute's favors in the great cities of the world, and he observed that "Negroes, their pigmentation of skin notwithstanding, are at least taller and straighter than the Japanese and perhaps have a greater sex appeal." All this created waves of giggles among the good-time girls of the Ginza bars, but it was scarcely calculated to win smiles of approval from officials at the Gaimushyo (Foreign Ministry...
...crippled World War I general, is already arrogant and glib despite his pale blond fragility. Kazakh, son of an Aryan mother and a Jewish father who is killed as a heroic leader of the Social Democrat uprising in 1934, is a shy, sensitive boy, but stronger and taller than Wirthof. Kazakh easily wins the foot race that follows their initial encounter; yet he is able to realize even then that Wirthof dominates him psychologically if not physically...