Word: reminded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...whole, Dale Carnegie seems to have made a deeper impression on Thakin Nu than the stern tenets of Marxism. Nu tells a little story to explain his attitude. "The rebels," he says, "remind me of an actor playing the tiger in the famous Burmese drama Mai U. While waiting for his cue to chase the villain he fell asleep, only to wake up suddenly in the middle of the next play, where Prince Siddhartha (Gautama Buddha) was setting out on his charger to follow the life of an ascetic. Thinking he was still in the previous play, the sleepy actor...
...this leaves no room for the other things I found in my desk. And you should be grateful, because they are going to remind me of some intelligent remarks I wanted to make about Radcliffe girls as students, and the study of languages. Just what they were you will find out one of these days when there isn't any readable copy lying about . . . don't forget about Cornell. Army is on the horizon, but it's still a long way to Ithaca...
...CEREMONIAL KISSING OF THE ALTAR: "A keyhole, through which you look right back to the catacombs; Mass over the tombs of the martyrs ... All altars must have relics ... to remind us that we belong to the martyrs of the first century, and they to us . . . The Mass...
Adenauer cut him off imperiously: "I would like to remind you that we in th:'s chamber represent 46 million Germans in the only part of Germany where there is freedom from fear...
...industry's tight-lipped leaders began to remind each other that Hollywood's laboriously contrived self-portrait was once again in danger of looking like a comic strip-and an ugly one. For years, the world's best pressagents have been plugging the theme that Hollywood is a typical American town, a wholesome little community populated by "just folks": a lot of them better-than-average-looking, to be sure, but hardworking, sober, law-abiding, family-loving. This picture of the town, while true as far as it goes, glosses over the fact that under the klieg...