Word: regarding
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...TIME was off key.-ED. Me Sir: From one TIME reader to all others, I'd like to be recorded as in complete agreement with your astute reviewer's perceptive opinion of the new off-Broadway musical Ernest in Love, especially in regard to the manner in which the Anne Croswell lyrics "graft smoothly onto the play as in a superbly haughty number called A Handbag Is Not a Proper Mother." Like the "superbly haughty" Lady Bracknell, the famous Wildian character who sings this number, the "superbly haughty" actress (anonymous in your review) who essays this role...
...visit to the U.S.? His answer was insulting but not compelling. He had been on the point of doing so at Camp David because the atmosphere was "so convivial, with President Eisenhower telling me to call him 'my friend' in English and using the same words with regard to myself in Russian. But then I became apprehensive, and I thought there was something fishy about this friend of mine, and I didn't broach the subject. It turned out that I was right because when we caught them redhanded they say they are not thieves...
...achievement. Most of his 32 novels were adventure stories about Indians and trappers or about the sea. But he also produced a handful of society novels, beginning with his first book, Precaution, written in 1820 on a dare by his wife, and there were times when Cooper seemed to regard these as his most exciting work. Though his own Natty Bumppo-the Deerslayer-eventually slew this illusion, Cooper could write: "Europe itself is a Romance, while all America is a matter of fact, humdrum, common sense region from Quoddy to Cape Florida...
...Gaulle, still trying to stave off the complete collapse of the conference, declared that he would stay in contact with each of the delegations, decide within a few days whether to hold another session. Khrushchev unyieldingly replied that there could not be "another" session, since he did not regard this day's work as a summit meeting. When De Gaulle and Macmillan asked what his immediate plans were, Nikita was carefully noncommittal. If possible, he clearly intended to force someone else to take the blame for formally breaking up the conference. Nikita bounced out of the Elysee palace, joking...
...which Ike had reason to regard as characteristically Russian. In the days just after World War II, Ike recounts in his autobiography, Russia's Marshal Georgy Zhukov confided to him that the Soviets had discovered an unbeatable technique for clearing German minefields: just send a company of infantry through the mined area...