Word: boastfulness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other side of the casualty ledger, some North Vietnamese may be skeptical of their government's war reports, which continually boast of inflicting outsized losses on the enemy. A letter, signed by "Many Readers," appeared in the March issue of Popular Current Events, a party periodical, asking: "If, since the war began, we have annihilated 1,500,000 of the enemy, including 500,000 Americans, why does the enemy still have more than 1,000,000 troops in South Viet Nam?" The editor's reply was strictly party-line-that the U.S. is a huge industrial country that...
...next fall. Idiosyncrasy is no longer suspect. In some areas the man in the turtleneck is beginning to replace the man in the gray flannel suit. Says Michigan Law Review Editor James Martin: "The firms want to make sure that you meet their guys with mustaches and sideburns. They boast about hiring a Negro -or a woman." The universities will probably have to re-emphasize their original function of teaching and reduce the stress on research. Some of the links that have been established with outside business and government may have to be severed. The behavioral-science departments, which have...
...However, Thieu evidently felt that Nixon's proviso-"if that is what the South Vietnamese people freely choose"-was both fair and safe. At week's end, while receiving Rogers, he requested a meeting with Nixon, perhaps to ask for further assurances. Mostly, however, Nixon's boast that he had ended the crisis of confidence between Saigon and Washington seemed justified...
...travel around Rome, the girls, along with Gigli and his photographic gear, piled into a large Cadillac that the driver liked to boast once belonged to Pope John. When they moved to the island of Rhodes, they had to hire donkeys to carry themselves and their equipment up the steep approach to the temple of Athena at Lindos...
...against such a stark panorama that Schoenberg, Berg, Webern, and Debussy, their earlier counterpart in the reformation of sensibility, labored to form a musical, syntax of more penetrating and living poetry. Richard Strauss's famous boast that he could set a glass of beer to music contrasts sharply with Debussy's later response to his world...