Word: tellings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dubbed "the oldest young man in the capital," became Stalin's Ambassador to the U.S. (1943-46) and then to the United Nations, where he set a U.N. walkout record of 13 days 21 hr. 46 min. Khrushchev says of Gromyko: "If I tell my Foreign Minister to sit on a block of ice and stay there for months, he'll do it without back talk." Gromyko's personality opposite on the tour: Ambassador to the U.S. Mikhail ("Smiling Mike") Menshikov, 56, whose beaming arrival in Washington 18 months ago first signaled the Kremlin thaw...
...were uniformly unhelpful. Not that they did not try-in a land with little or no communications, they were merely uninformed. When one freshly arrived newsman asked Defense Minister Sounthone Pathammavong for a quick briefing on the situation, the minister shot him an injured look, plaintively asked: "Can you tell me?" In Samneua, Brigadier General Amkha Soukhavong blithely informed reporters that "only about 20% of our troops are missing"-only to be just as blithely contradicted by Lieut. General Ouane Rathikone, chief of staff: "All our men were either killed or taken prisoner...
...their figures. They announced officially that Lunik II would reach the moon four minutes ahead of schedule: at 5:01 E.D.T. They also predicted boldly that it would hit in the region between the Sea of Tranquillity, the Sea of Serenity and the Sea of Vapors. The way to tell that it had hit, they said, would be to hear its radio signals stop...
...answer, if only to himself. As always it is more baffling to cope with the indifference, for it assumes a prior judgment; it rests on an implied assumption that Catholicism is by nature phony; that Catholicism is patronizing, and assumes the air of a father who won't tell the child there is no Santa Claus. Catholics are certainly not despised, but in general they are respected only despite their Catholicism...
...Thousand Things, it is not the facts of life that matter so much in Yesterday as the fact of life. Author Dermout can tell much of what needs to be told about Javanese servants by catching them in moments of tenderness or bitterness when their blank-faced defenses are down. Best of all, she can describe a life no longer possible without resorting to plantation tears. Yesterday is offered as a bit of fiction. It does not matter how it is read, as imagination or autobiography; the best thing about this book is the fact that the reader is almost...