Word: welshing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SELECTED LETTERS OF DYLAN THOMAS, edited by Constantine FitzGibbon. This careful selection shows that the great Welsh poet was incapable of writing badly-and just as incapable of living well...
SELECTED LETTERS OF DYLAN THOMAS, edited by Constantine FitzGibbon. This carefully culled selection of the tragic Welsh poet's letters painfully - and touchingly -reveals that his chronic fault was a reckless profligacy in everything...
...newspaper editor says, "This is the West. When the fact becomes legend, print the legend," Ford's films show the legend. His world is diffused by time, by memory and nostalgia, by folklore and myth. In How Green Was My Valley, Ford's adaptation of Llewellyn's novel of Welsh coal miners, the story resembles a dream, seen in retrospect by a man who has had his entire life to romanticize the past: his childhood and his family. Ford is not interested in reality but in subjective viewpoint, not fact but romance and legend...
This is a way to make friends? Jordan immediately withdrew its ambassador in protest. Nasser's speech cinched the fact-which was already evident-that he will not be getting any more wheat from the U.S. As for his threat to welsh on debt payments, most of his debtors considered it a desperate act of bravado, designed to let his creditors know that he cannot pay them all off -and that he will give first priority to those who bother him least about the delay. The plain fact is that Nasser could not pay even if he wanted...
...taxes, to her manager and to her family (John, two half brothers, a half sister, as well as her mother and stepfather). Much of what she had left she spent on phone calls back to Britain. Her half brother Donald still tells how he used to kick the family Welsh corgi, Humpty, to make him bark a transatlantic hello...