Word: winstone
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...serious practitioners of the art of insult, the British probably dismiss Haig's testy comment on Carrington as hardly in the same world class as the invective of Lloyd George, who said that Winston Churchill would "make a drum out of the skin of his own mother in order to sound his own praises"; of World War Fs Field Marshal Haig that he "was brilliant to the top of his army boots"; of Lord Derby that he was "like a cushion who always bore the impress of the last man who sat on him." Devastating ad libs and insults...
When the Navy took over the Freshman Union and Eliot House as training comters during the war. Claflin coordinated officers' programs on campus. He remained a prominent figure throughout the American war effort and met personally with Winston Churchill when the letter came to Cambridge, Clafin's wife, Helen, said yesterday...
Here is George Orwell, resembling "Don Quixote, very lean and egotistic and honest and foolish; a veritable Knight of the Woeful Countenance ... A kind of dry egotism has burnt him out." Here is Winston Churchill in retirement, "a curious mixture of cunning and animality" pathetically exhibiting an old Boer War poster advertising ?25 for his capture: "It's more than they would offer...
...campaign speeches-which is what the address basically was. With a showman's instinct, he evoked the heroic spirit of Leonard Skutnik, who dived into the Potomac last month to rescue a drowning plane crash victim (see box), and stirring speeches to Congress by Winston Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln. Only when he touched on foreign policy did he shift about nervously, as if on unsure terrain...
...destruction at the level of genius. Yet when the artist stood up from his desk to talk about his work, he could barely survive his own respectability. For, as The Making of an Artist subtly reveals, Mann may have loved his Latin mother, but he became his Teutonic father. Winston might have concluded the life with out edging any closer to the man. At 36, Mann was complete. -By Melvin Maddocks