Word: shuddering
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1980
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...SHUDDER PASSES through the form of sleeping Derek Bok; The floor creaks in the hallway, a key turns in the lock. He wakens; it is morning; his dreams have filled the night, And President Bok's secretary switches on his light. "There's thirty, forty students outside banging on the door, Demanding that they see you." He asks, "What're they here for? Is it the Third World Center? Is it a tenure dispute? Is it about those kiosks? Or maybe the shuttle bus route? Could it be the latest divestiture demand? Is it the Radcliffe Forum...
...Brecht's easily garbled multiple ironies. Epstein uses his performers, music, dance, mime and even neon signs to illuminate Brecht's critique of the half-life of the bourgeoisie; he gives it such sober clarity that even the most plumped matron must follow Brecht point by point, and shudder...
Worse than the unguided guest is one who cannot talk at all. Brokaw also recalls with a shudder .ininterview with an Italian film director who suddenly froze and reverted to his native tongue. Brokaw had, as usual, done his homework and answered his own questions while the film director nodded "Si, si, si. "CBS'S Schieffer had a some what similar experience. He was interviewing a Soviet emigree who suddenly began arguing with her translator. For three minutes the two argued in Russian until the matter was resolved...
...diplomats were rather more cautious than Carter's entourage in responding to what State Department Spokesman John Trattner called the "delicious shudder of rumors." Privately, some State Department veterans were dismayed that a pro-Iranian policy was being concocted on the hustings for what might in part be domestic political reasons. One cause for diplomatic skepticism was Iran's crippling internal political dissensions, which had frustrated all past attempts to obtain the freedom of the hostages. Another was the lack of any reliable channel for the direct negotiations that would be necessary to seal an agreement...
...nudge, urge, threaten in a thousand ways that can bring change. Thus the pressure was desperate to complete in a few days the deal for selling 6 million to 9 million metric tons of grain to China. The arrival of the Iranian mission at the U.N. sent a delicious shudder through Foggy Bottom. Castro's release of imprisoned Americans was viewed as an effort to soothe troubled waters for whoever wins the Oval Office-but Castro wants Carter. The word leaked out that Armand Hammer, the U.S. industrialist and buddy of Brezhnev's, came straight from Moscow last...