Word: brandes
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Bildungsroman of a trumpeter swan with a speech defect. As a cygnet, young Louis has to be furnished with a store-bought trumpet, and soon tootles his way into many hearts and places. White's main achievement, though, is Louis' father, a cultivated cob who talks a brand of rhetoric such as might come of an alliance between Leda and the Late George Apley...
...could have prepared a press release even before we met. Then he asked if I'd go out to have a photograph taken with him. I said I certainly would mind. And I said, "If you ever say anything that's a lie again, I'll brand you a liar again." Strange to say, he never attacked the Bureau again for as long as he lived...
Even before the victim of Canada's first political kidnaping was set free in Montreal last week, the new brand of terror had spread to Europe. In San Sebastian, a prospering seaport in northern Spain's Basque country, a gang of youthful urban guerrillas was waiting when Eugen Beihl, a West German businessman who doubles as Bonn's consul in the city, returned home from work. Beihl, 59, never made it into his house. Two days later, his Mercedes was found abandoned on a cart track leading into the Pyrenees and the French border...
WHAT, then, gives the Sarris brand of auteurism its especially attractive quality...
...styles of the two squads differ greatly. Harvard plays an explosive brand of hockey, outscoring its first three opponents by a combined total of 25-8. Brown plays a much closer, conservative game, with accent placed on defense...