Word: unkindnesses
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...confined to scientists. Stylized representations of all professions, generally grossly inaccurate, flood our media. Our T.V. cowboys bear no more resemblance to real post-Civil War cowboys than Perry Mason and Nicholas Cain bear to real lawyers, or Peter Gunn to a real private detective. Piel's unkind, thinly disguised cut at Frank Papp's Bell Telephone science series completely ignores first the unusual accuracy and clear presentation of the programs, and second the fact that they were prepared primarily for young children...
...Hannah how he once saw the natives of an unnamed country scavenge a dung heap for undigested food. In the internal logic of the play, the speech is fully justified, for Shannon is testing Hannah and her previously stated creed that "nothing human disgusts me unless it's unkind...
...Awful Spot. At week's end the svelte Australian challenger was still berthed at the Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron, awaiting christening and preliminary sea trials. Sydney wags suggested the name Spectre, an unkind play on the Sceptre. Britain's roundly trounced 1958 challenger. But the syndicate of Down Under businessmen (a newspaper magnate, an oilman, a tobacco tycoon) who had shelled out $700,000 to build her were optimistic about her chances against the U.S. next September. Said Syndicate Chairman Sir Frank Packer: "The Americans have had the cup for so long that when they give...
Expanding on his theme, Kennedy noted that there were some similarities between football and politics. "Some Republicans have been unkind enough to suggest that my election . . . was similar to the Notre Dame-Syracuse game [which Notre Dame won, 17-15, on the basis of a referee's disputed ruling]. But I'm like Notre Dame. We just take it as it comes along. We're not giving it back...
Such ringing conviction was the last thing his critics expected when Home took office last year. In fact, some were unkind enough to hold that his life had peaked 39 years before at Eton, where Classmate Cyril Connolly remembers him as "the graceful, tolerant, sleepy boy who is showered with favors and crowned with laurels, without any apparent exertion on his part. He appeared honorably ineligible for the struggle of life." At Christ Church College, Oxford, Home could not earn his blue at cricket, never matching his brilliant 66 on a sticky wicket for Eton against Harrow. He caught Neville...