Word: friendlies
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...perch in the Golden Cage belongs to Speaker Celso Lisboa, 45. The owner of a private school, Lisboa got himself elected in 1950, proved himself a warm friend of the thousands of school-age children in Rio who are deprived of an education by lack of buildings and teachers. He pushed through a bill authorizing the city administration to pay private-school board and tuition for schoolless children. When the bill passed, Lisboa himself bought a second private school, now collects $40,000 a month under the terms of his own bill. Running for re-election as speaker last March...
...energetic, hard-drinking man ("He discovered some years ago," said a friend, "that Scotch is the perfect antidote for platinum poisoning"), Kinkaid, 65, has a reputation for driving his students, often summoned them to his house on weekends to play. He himself is so fascinated by the production of sound that he has been known to sit at a soda fountain blowing through a straw in an effort to alter its tone. Even after his retirement from the orchestra, he will continue to teach. His replacement: James Pellerite, formerly of the Detroit Symphony. He is, of course, a student...
...this month at 68 as vice president and senior faculty member of Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary. The gift: a Reinhold Niebuhr professorship of social ethics. Its first incumbent: Congregationalist John Coleman Bennett. 57, dean of the faculty and professor of applied Christianity at Union, who, like his friend Niebuhr. is deeply concerned with the century's social problems...
...onetime law student who flunked his exams and then scattered himself into a series of miscellaneous jobs (shoe clerk, cigar-counter man, etc.), Chicagoan Newhart learned the beginnings of his trade on the telephone, is still fond of it as a basic tool. He would call a friend and "try to break him up," making tapes of the conversations. The tapes were so funny that local radio stations bought them as "ratings boosters" to help raise the level of disk-jockey programs. On last year's Emmy Award program his Lincoln phone call stopped the show...
...vowel for several blocks if he likes its looks. Author Naipaul, a native of Trinidad, understands well that his comical characters do not live comic lives, and his best sketches are shaded with compassion. When police drag a much-admired fraud named Bogart off to jail for nonsupport, his friend Hat gives an eloquent explanation of why Bogart had left his wife in a distant village and returned to strut about Miguel Street: "To be a man, among we men." Laura, Bogart. and a few more of Port of Spain's people deserve another look...