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...self-pity. Men-Russian and German-die in the same mechanical terms, and the Russians share and share alike. Finally, young (34) Narrator Ledig denies himself a soldier's permissible cynicism. His major is led at the end to a military funeral, where, after listening to the "unctuous" chaplain, he and his sergeant exchange an almost mute confidence. Everything but God has been destroyed, the sergeant seems to say. "It would be unthinkable," replies the major, "if that were...
More than 5,000 graveside lectures gave Art's voice the slightly unctuous quality that has made him one of the best-paid commercial announcers on the air; he does the Chevrolet spiels on TV's Dinah Shore Show and on a radio news cast. (His grateful employers spent an estimated $4,000 building him a personal horn for his personal Chevvie; it plays the commercial jingle: "See the U.S.A. in a Chevrolet.") He has also parlayed his voice into the radio program Art.Baker's Notebook, on the air since...
Through the clink and tinkle of the bottles and glasses at the bar the jukebox blasted Tex Ritter's unctuous boom...
...subject chosen for debate was rotund Economic Affairs Minister Ludwig Erhard's program to control West Germany's economic boom and accompanying wage-price spiral. The debate took the form of a few unctuous commonplaces. Said one of the 150 West Berliners in the audience: "They come to us up here and squabble about their own wealth...
Next day Chou paid gracious tribute-via the British Broadcasting Corp.-to the peace-loving people of Britain. He took off for a state visit to East Berlin, where puppet Red Premier Otto Grotewohl paid unctuous homage: "No power on earth can settle international problems without consulting the Great People's Republic of China." Chou took Grotewohl at his word; he surveyed one of Grotewohl's -and Russia's trickiest unresolved problems, then observed: "Geneva . . . will favorably influence the reunification of Germany...