Word: compliments
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They warned that Harvard people were likely to be freaks and "remember, seven out of every ten girls who took LSD for the first time didn't like it." The Yale man, on the other hand, was given the ultimate compliment. He was described as "cool...
...characters are generally adolescents in disguise. At times he has handled this theme as well as anyone, but in Two English Girls, when he makes hesistant attempts to break new ground, he fails completely. He has begun to take his characters too seriously, and they don't deserve the compliment...
...President has made a special pitch to various ethnic groups who normally vote Democratic, and many of them have returned the compliment. Albert Gee, grand president of the Chinese-American Citizens Alliance, is supporting Nixon. So is Sam Nakis, past supreme president of the Greek-American organization AHEPA. Among Jewish defectors are Rabbi Herschel Schacter, former chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Jewish Organizations; and David Luchins, who headed the 1972 Jewish Youth for Humphrey. Blacks have been the staunchest holdouts against Republican blandishments, but Nixon has been able to pick up the backing of Athlete-Actor Jim Brown...
Like his settings, his characters' movements and gestures appear stylized to Western eyes, for they move with the grace and ceremonial formality of traditional Japanese etiquette. No one says hello or bids good-bye, pays a compliment or enters a room, without bowing politely to show respect, or even deep affection. These motions raise the most ordinary pastimes to a kind of cherished ritual. The langorous physical actions and static facial expressions actually serve to heighten one's awareness of constant tension. For even at the most peaceful moments, fans tremble incessantly in the hands of the actors, attempting...
...Polish-American Congress convention in Detroit this month, Shriver offered what he called a seven-point "Ethnic Magna Carta," but he received much less applause than Spiro Agnew, who simply reminded the audience how close the President felt to them. Agnew and Nixon received another kind of ethnic compliment in Chicago when Frank Sinatra once again emerged from retirement. Changing the lyrics of The Lady Is a Tramp, Sinatra crooned to a crowd...