Word: smiled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Pain eats up energy. Politics does not encourage precise thought. "When you begin to shout and find the smile fixing itself on your mouth," Grass says, "you know you're really in politics." Political campaigns are also distracting?as Norman Mailer, the one major writer in the U.S. whose recent course seems to parallel Grass's, recently found out. There are critics who say that Grass will turn from writing to action for good if Willy Brandt should offer him a big enough job in the new government. Grass denies that. As proof, he holds up not only his work...
...certainly hope that the hundreds of pedestrians and bicycle riders gathering in the Square won't disrupt traffic," he added with a smile...
...going to let you get away with just participating in the rebate program and just giving up a meal a week and thinking that black people are going to smile on you and say "right on," he added. "Sooner or later you're going to have to put your life on the line...
...about to be heckled for my taste in cereals, and I rather doubted that our interaction was going to be confined to words. So how am I going to put these guys off? I told them that it was good stuff. "So's a punch," one replied with a smile. I saw his implication without too much trouble. Without further hesitation. I offered one of them some of my Cap'n Crunch. He liked it, of course, and it seemed to appease him. They wanted to know where I was from and what I was doing, and finally left...
...reasons. The first reason was that my brother, I. J. Singer, who wrote The Brothers Askkenazi, was here; and I wanted to be with him. The second reason was I was afraid of Hider. There was a third reason-I didn't make a living in Warsaw." A smile spread across his face, and the crow's fect at the corners of his eyes became deeper and merrier. I knew he was about to tell a story...