Word: utterness
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Boston Democratic politicos are sanguine to greater or lesser degrees today; but they seem to wear an expression of healthy ebulliance as they utter the last familiar gasps of the campaign all over the city. Nobody was in at the Kennedy Headquarters on Tremont Street. "They're all down at the Boston Garden," said the elevator boy, "getting ready for the next President of the United States." And a Ward campaign manager added: "President Kennedy...
...year career in which he had become the nation's best-known syndicated radio and television columnist-and announced that henceforth he would be a critic of all U.S. society. His parting shot at TV: "This great medium of information and education is totally dedicated to utter vacuity...
...achieving success but of accepting it as its due. In 1947 Manager Bucky Harris won the American League pennant and the World Series; the next year the Yankees were squeezed out in the season's last week-and Harris was swiftly fired. At that point, to the utter astonishment of all, the Yankees made a move that seemed as though General Motors had been delivered into the hands of a Keystone Cop. As their new manager, the Yankees chose baseball's buffoon: Charles Dillon ("Casey") Stengel...
...thought to topple Albert or the big figure of Leopold II that stands before the Parliament building. Léopoldville has no visible revenue, but somehow the lights functioned, the garbage was collected and the water ran normally. Government departments were hardly functioning, but to the utter amazement of Manhattan financiers, a check arrived at Dillon. Read & Co.'s Wall Street offices from the Congo's Central Bank paying in full the $393,750 interest due Oct. 1 on Congo bonds...
...technique is one of pure simplicity," says Karsh. "I generate so much enthusiasm when working that the subject becomes part and parcel of this enthusiasm." Actually it is not that simple. He arms himself with extensive research on the habits, mannerisms and quirks of his subject. "I live in utter agony after I have taken the picture. I know there are so many things I could have done to make it better, but I am exhausted." His fees: $600 in the U.S., $200 for Ottawans, $300 for anyone who comes from elsewhere to Ottawa...