Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...geisha is not now and never has been for the young man or for American tourists; she is for the Japanese businessman, politician, professional man or artist who has made or inherited his name and fortune. Possibly the Japanese businessman who said, ''Frankly . . . they have become a bore" was referring to geisha parties for foreign tourists, rather than to geisha...
...idea between its covers. The lady of the title is one of the last grandes dames of England. One of her grandsons is a director of the Bank of England, another will soon be a bishop, and a third is a Cabinet minister-although she can remember when a politician at her dinner table would have been as unthinkable as an American. She is 80 on the day the book opens, but she is still so beautiful and witty that England's beknighted poet laureate, Sir Percy Rodiner, trots beside her, constantly begging her to marry him. Like everyone...
Subtle & Clever. Across the length and breadth of big and little problems ranged the conversation. Politician Humphrey talked about the perils of farm politics in the Midwest; Politician Khrushchev grinned widely when he talked about outmaneuvering his rivals in the Politburo said of one of them (unnamed by Humphrey): "He knew arithmetic but he didn't know politics." Humphrey was deeply impressed with Khrushchev's knowledge of U.S. political details ranging from understanding of constitutional balances down to vote margins and knowledge of such individual races as the victory of Nelson Rockefeller for Governor in New York...
...cagey politician who is given to spouting fractured French ("La ou il y a de I'homme, il y a de I'hommerie"), and making resounding promises ("The thirst for a better state itches us"), the abbé likes to foretell "tomorrows that sing...
Becalmed between floors in a Chicago hotel elevator. New Jersey's Democratic Governor Robert B. Meyner displayed a true politician's talent for talking his way out of anything, tranquilized the panic-stricken operator with a soothing filibuster (25 minutes) until rescue time. "She'd never been faced with an emergency before, but after a few minutes she calmed down, and we just chatted until the power was 'resumed," explained Presidential Hopeful Meyner, adding carefully: "We did not discuss politics...