Word: warmness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...search for the Chinese way of doing things occasionally got the better of him. John Carter Vincent, then number two man in the American embassy, remembers visiting Fairbank and finding him "living like a Chinese in a cold, barren office trying to keep warm in a padded Chinese gown. He was in such a bad state with a cold that I brought him back to the embassy and had him stay there until he got over...
...exhibition was scheduled as a warm-up for Tuesday night's Beanpot Tournament opener against Boston University, and it proved to be little more. The disinterested crowd was swelled to 350 by friends of the St. Nicks players, who ranged from Princeton '58 to Brown...
...retaining its lyrical, earthy feeling," he formed his own group in 1965 and toured Europe, where he was an immediate sensation. He walked off with top critical honors in virtually every jazz festival in which he played. Back home now, where the acceptance of New Wave jazz is luke- warm at best, the pickings are still slim. Behind his tinted glasses, Lloyd broods quietly about his future. Now 28, he says sadly: "So few have really gotten through. That's what terrifies me. Women have taken them, or drugs, or something else has happened to prevent their expressions from...
...jerry-built outcropping of grandiose, half-filled government buildings and a splendid four-lane boulevard that runs straight and proud to the weeds and sand at the city's edge. The one major difference is that Dahomey's strongman, President Christophe Soglo, held out the warm hand of friendship-and frank financial interest...
...character-crammed plots and subplots are synchronized by Director Richard Quine like cars in a well-run elevator bank. Something is always moving, nothing is ever out of control. The color is warm, the performances are solid, the talk is sensible-much more sensible, in fact, than it was in the novel. Paying guests will have a pleasant stay in this Hotel, and experience a mild but genuine regret at checkout time...