Word: badly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Says Margaret Mead: "Superstitions reflect the keenness of our wish to have something come true or to prevent something bad from happening. The half acceptance and half denial accorded superstitions give us the best of both worlds...
...Paris peace talks that ended World War I.F.D.R. once regarded him as a "Hoover agent," twice tried unsuccessfully to get him fired. Both Jack and Bobby Kennedy submitted the manuscripts of their first books to him for critical comment. To his secretary, Laura Waltz, his ponderous prose is "notoriously bad." To his former colleagues at the New York Times, he is "Mr. Krock." Says Washington Bureau Chief Tom Wicker, "I wouldn't dream of calling him Arthur...
...Krock is convinced that his rumblings of impending doom should be taken full strength. With the innate humor he seldom displayed in 60 years of portentous prose, he recalls in his memoirs the advice once offered him by Franklin D. Roosevelt: "Cheer up, Arthur. Things have seldom been as bad as you said they were...
Nantucket Memorial Airport was socked in, and all flights to and from the island resort off the southern hook of Cape Cod were canceled. The only thing moving through the mist was an awkward contraption that looked like an oversized giraffe with a bad case of neck strain. As it rumbled along, the monster seemed to be generating additional fog, spewing a fine white spray out of its tall tip. But the machine's passage produced remarkable results. In less than half an hour, some of the thick ocean-born fog overhanging the field began to disappear...
...something very like it, has been done often enough before, from H. G. Wells' time machines to Stanley Kubrick's space odyssey. Moreover, Frayn's first sentence-"Once upon a time there will be a little girl called Uncumber"-gets the whole thing off to a bad start. Sure enough, Uncumber has a mother called Frideswide and a father called Aelfric. The coyly chosen names and the uneasy use of the future tense suggest a particularly tiresome and traditionally British kind of whimsy...