Word: things
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Staten Island was really small when my husband and I attended it over a decade ago. I am unique in that I earned an R.N., B.S., M.A. and Mrs. all from that one small school. You see, college is not wasted on women; Wagner gave me the most important thing in my life: my husband...
There are pleasant things, to be sure, in all of this, and there is one strong feat of acting. But there is no harmony of mood or certainty of movement; trying its luck with this thing and that, Camelot has made a fish pond of its story rather than a widening stream, and provides an evening that for all its sumptuous adornments seems curiously empty...
...abroad. Says Gene Leonard, managing director of G.M.'s plant in Bienne, Switzerland: "We send currency back to the U.S. instead of draining American reserves. American companies spend as little as they can from their American resources in plant investment. After all, there's also such a thing as a dollar-drain problem inside a company...
...Dday, "two Mannerses"), and for a time, in "dung-covered boots," fed swill to pigs on a Sussex farm. Her bits on the horrors of life under British austerity are done with sharp irony. Lady Dufferin's goldfinch was "frozen to death in her bedroom. A remarkable thing to happen to a British bird." Then there were the disgruntled mothers from Britain's bombed slums quartered in the Stately Homes of England. Said one: "I can stand anything but the trees. The trees get me down...
...several countries haven't a clue about who Odysseus really is. Storyteller Maclnnes casts some forthright foreshadows, but it takes Strang and the reader most of the book to uncover the blackguard, just in time to save the President of Yugoslavia and a beautiful girl photographer. Only one thing bothers the reader. Early in the book, the author represents her virile hero as musing in these words about whether to attend a formal dinner: "Who am I to lower the tone of an haut monde evening with my simple little tweed?" Does Tito really need such help...