Word: adding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...promote himself among G.O.P. moderates as a peace candidate. Last week in San Francisco, while conceding that Viet Nam is "the best fought and least understood war in history," he said flatly: "We shouldn't be there." Next week a draft-Gavin group will run a full-page ad in the New York Times. That may well prove the high point of his candidacy...
...Easy as pie," proclaims the Gun World ad promoting hand loading of ammunition, and featuring the comely matron holding a plateful of cartridges while her three daughters look on. Here's a caption I like even better: "The family that loads together explodes together...
...numbers game called How to Lie with Statistics, Author Darrell Huff coined the word "statisticulation"-the art of lying with statistics while seeming objective. One trade that statisticulates regularly is advertising. A nostrum for piles or pyorrhea is endorsed by eight cut of ten physicians because the ad agency has tirelessly spent time and money assembling panel after panel until it finds one that shows an eight-out-of-ten result...
...Died. Ad Reinhardt, 53, prophet of minimal art; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Starting as a cubist, Reinhardt gradually reduced color, texture and deign to almost jet-black canvas squares, with only the slightest shadings of muted colors and black-on-black stripes. "I'm just making the last paintings anyone can make," he said. Critics long tended to dismiss his grail as more void than essence, yet in recent years the art world rewarded his search with fame and up to $15,000 per canvas...
...manner of James Joyce in his celebrated parody of all English prose since the Venerable Bede, catch the tone of class and time. One hilarious example is a meeting between Lady Chatterley and a real, rather than Law-rentian, gamekeeper who can't abide them words she 'ad picked oop from that Mellors, the previous incumbent. "Look at 'er," the keeper says bitterly, "Lady Chastity 'erself from the 'All! Visitin'! Canna keep 'er clothes on, neither! This is Lady Jane, 'er says, point-in' to where 'er shouldna...