Word: phrasing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...wounds inside the party and working in subterranean fashion on leaders of bloc interests. That is the necessary groundwork of successful organizing and calculated to pay off later, but it is not what inspires now. Kennedy efficiency is accepted: in fact, it is part of the commonly heard phrase that Nixon and Kennedy are two of a kind-organization...
...having to attack the other by the fact that the road between Vientiane and Luangprabang was washed out by the monsoon. Most of the 28,000-man Laotian army scattered throughout the country either had not heard of the revolt at all or reacted with Laos' soft, favorite phrase, "be pen nyan [it doesn't matter]." To break this stalemate, Kongle suggested the formation of a new government headed by Prince Souvanna Phouma, half brother of the Communist Pathet Lao commander and onetime neutralist Premier of Laos. This suggestion worried the U.S. State Department, which now concedes that...
...positioned neatly after their Olympian periods are Ives's variations on Turkey in the Straw, Columbia the Gem of the Ocean, even that old Dartmouth drinking song, Where, Oh Where, Are the Pea-Green Freshmen? After passages of spacious solemnity, the horns break suddenly into a capering phrase from Camptown Races; in the midst of the frenzied final movement, doleful woodwinds sound forth with Old Black Joe. Even the ending is typically Ivesian: the entire orchestra comes in with a raucous, jeering cluster of chords...
...emerges in A.D. 802,701 to discover a world populated by a passive and benumbed race called the Eloi-blond youths and maidens who retain little of 20th century cultures except the art of permanent waving and a grim phrase that means peace: "All clear." To his horror, the Time Traveler learns of the Morlocks, a tribe of cavern-dwelling green mutants who breed the Eloi as beef cattle. (Why science fiction's monsters never breed cattle as cattle is perplexing, but perhaps they dislike the taste.) Actor Taylor, of course, does mighty battle to save the Eloi, particularly...
...19th jail. In Palestine he finds a people who "wanted to organize a stock market in a Biblical manner," Jews beat other Jews for smoking on the Sabbath, and he cannot understand the dirty songs in a nightclub because, in a phrase of desperate pathos, "in Hebrew he could only pray...