Word: boast
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...present form, Sassafras can boast only a semi-humorous premise and an incredible two-hour anthology of stillborn gag lines...
...battalions, set his lines of defense, and established his criteria for defeat or victory: there would be no disturbances in the streets of Chicago. The leftist youth leaders-Tom Hayden, David Dillinger, Jerry Rubin-drew up their counterstrategy and took the field, determined to prove that Daley's boast was hollow. On those terms, victory clearly went to the rebels...
...Three to display its 1969s (TIME, Aug. 30), Ford and G.M. will offer minor styling changes on most models, major restyling on only a few. At Ford, the major work has been done on the full-size cars, including the LTD, which will be wider and lower, boast such features as a "flight cockpit" instrument array, a short rear deck and the long hood that is fast becoming a Detroit cliche. Mustang, the car that inspired the look, is becoming fast, period. Next year's "Mach 1" model will be able to live up to the name...
...Riencourt takes that outdated boast with deadly seriousness. Something deep in the character of the Puritan (an "iron-hard, practical, sober fanatic dedicated to hard work") ideally equips Americans to play 20th century Romans. When Puritan qualities are combined with the "innate and relentless expansionism" of the frontiersman, it becomes clear that "it was just not in [Americans'] dynamic temper to become the peaceful Swiss of the Western Hemisphere." Yet Americans, De Riencourt insists, have been "fundamentally reluctant" imperialists. They have not really played the game of colonialism, which he defines as an ephemeral grab for pseudo empire...
...rewrite of Goethe's romantic masterpiece, The Sorrows of Young Werther. It is one of the simplest love stories in the world, but Berto's sense of irony transforms it. He unerringly follows the foolish impulse to the ridiculous act, the self-deception to the empty boast, the self-doubt to the confident lie-all the leaps that young love tries and fails to make...