Word: telle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Crossroads. She needs to know nothing about high policy, but she must know a lot about politicians. She is a master of the cross-phone invitation (tell the Chief Justice the Secretary is coming, tell the Secretary the Chief Justice is coming, get both).* She is a kind of social crossroads; her guests come not so much to see her as to see each other. Her satisfaction comes from hobnobbing conspicuously with the great and near-great...
...trim-looking little Armenian, Mikoyan is an exception to the run of humorless Bolsheviks. He is happy-go-lucky, and he can tell a story. He likes to hum a tune, dance, drink. (He promised the Soviet people he would produce a good beer...
...young war veteran, broken by his experience, confused in heart and mind, will interrupt your talk about how democracy must be defended at all costs. He will ask: 'That is very nice talk, but tell me about tomorrow. Am I to take a gun and fight for capitalist America?' If you have time, you can go on and explain what capitalist America...
Academy President (and horse-painter) Sir Alfred Munnings galloped to the defense of the Academy by attacking modernism : "The director of the Tate may be able to tell us why a painting of a head with two noses is better than the landlady's favorite The Bath of Psyche, by Lord Leighton." Old folks generally liked the paintings, too. Said one blackstocking: "They remind me of my youth. Besides, I know what the subject is meant to be. Can't do that with pictures nowadays." Said another: "So frightfully British . . . and I do love the cows...
...clearly the big attraction of the evening; in fact, I thought Sanders Theater would fall in a heap from the applause when it was over. Just how much of the work's impact comes from powerful writing and how much from the force of the medium is hard to tell on first hearing. It seemed to me that much of the percussion part was only reinforcement, especially in the first movement. The two elements have a clearer relation to one another, however, in the last two movements, when the timpani picks up a theme from the pianos, or the xylophone...