Word: teas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bitter Tea. The Warsaw talks were nothing new. Despite U.S. nonrecognition of Peking, U.S. and Red Chinese envoys met 73 times between August 1955 and December 1957, with the U.S. constantly pressing Red China to renounce the use of force in the Formosa Strait. What was negotiable that had not been before...
Thomas Hill took the title role of Willy Loman. This type of part is exactly his dish of tea; he was utterly convincing at every moment, and compared favorably with his local predecessors in the role--Lee J. Cobb, Thomas Mitchell, and Dean Gitter...
Harold has a can of beer and a package of gum remaining; or a one-way subway token to Scollay Square (he can come back tomorrow); or English muffins and a cup of tea. Or a package of cigarettes. But it is night, the time of neon and lengthy shadows, streetlamps, hushed voices, nervous laughter, and sex. Night is Harold's garment of life...
...spinster, as the really grandes dames usually are. And she is known to sit quietly in a straightback mahogany chair--Colonial period-- in a drawing room of shadows, counting her memories on a rosary. She accepts visitors and offers them tea...
...preservation of his self-respect, Morris evolved a theory of literary evolution. It wasn't a new one, but it served as a tranquilizer during those long introspective sessions over cold tea at the Bick. The theory went like this: that Harvard was an alien place. staffed with immobile minds, sealed with several centuries of strict tradition, garlanded with unalterable standards, and cast in a peculiarly rigid social structure. In short, the Cambridge strata were well-rutted and different. Morris as one of the eager young men from elsewhere appeared in such a society and became immediately, and noticeably, uncomfortable...