Word: well-chosen
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...atheist with the courage of his convictions should die and let himself be buried without fuss. After all, why make much ceremonial ado about a body that has just passed into Nothing? But in practice, even atheists have a hankering for music and a few well-chosen words, and this pressing problem has just been taken up by Corliss Lamont, 52, the wealthy fellow traveler. In a pamphlet entitled A Humanist Funeral Service (Horizon Press; $1.00), Lamont paradoxically proposes some comforting last rites for unbelievers. In 1932, Lamont wrote his Columbia Ph.D. thesis on "The Illusion of Immortality...
...more complicated, it's refreshing to find someone who can express himself in simple, folksy style. President Eisenhower, quite a direct fellow himself, also knows the value of the kind of adviser who can come right to the point and say what's on his mind in a few well-chosen cliches...
...that well-chosen moment, McCarthy rose and gave his fellow Senators a sample of his ill-tempered vein. He entered in the Congressional Record a letter written by Harry Woodring, President Roosevelt's ineffective Secretary of War from 1936 to 1940 (whom F.D.R. sent packing to make room for Henry L. Stim-son). Democrat Woodring's letter, dated June 23, 1954 and addressed to New York Businessman Robert Harris, accused George C. Marshall of selling out Nationalist China under orders from the Truman Administration, and added: "I can tell you that he would sell out his grandmother...
...Well-Chosen Words. After three meetings with Eden (and dinner with Churchill), Dulles got agreement to a statement declaring Britain's recognition that Communist aggression in Indo-China "endangers" the security of the whole Southeast Asia area, and "accordingly, we are ready to take part with other countries principally concerned in an examination of the possibility of establishing a collective defense . . ." The ten suggested countries were the U.S., France, Britain, the Philippines, Australia, New Zealand, Thailand and the three Indo-Chinese states...
Tour of Duty. The four clubwomen had landed from a DC-6 at Rio's inter national airport with pencils and notebooks ready, determined to get the facts. Each had a few well-chosen words for airport interviewers, and "Grannie" Swanbeck, like a veteran politico, hugged the first Brazilian baby in sight. The visitors tasted their first Brazilian black coffee and duly noted that a small cup cost 6?. After that they firmly told their hosts to tear up the leisurely itinerary that had been prepared. Instead of sightseeing or sambaing in nightclubs with gallants from the Chamber...