Word: breasted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...melody was so great that his tunes were often pilfered, and he knew far better than his contemporaries how to weld the melody of an opera to its drama. Orontea, a typical Cesti product, is the story of a skittish Egyptian queen who spurns all suitors because in her "breast love dwells not." But when a handsome shipwrecked sailor emerges from the sea, she becomes so unnerved that she 1) falls in love with him, 2) slashes to pieces a portrait he has painted of her. and 3) decides to marry him. Only then does she learn that...
...probably knows what he's up against-a man aloof, lonely, enigmatic, humorless, sometimes Machiavellian, sarcastic, self-confident, courageous, irritating, pigheaded, visionary, indispensable and a hard bargainer." Frank Conniff, national editor of Hearst papers, suggested more succinctly that Kennedy might find the old general "teeth-breaking." In the breast of the Times's James Reston lurked the hope that the U.S. President might learn a trick or two in Paris, notably the trick of reserve. Reston quoted a De Gaullism on the subject: "There can be no prestige without mystery. In the designs, the demeanor and the mental...
That is bad enough in itself, but it is only one of his recurring (and invariably ill-chosen) breast images. I don't begrudge Viereck his two hundred years to adore each breast: I do ask that his adoring be appropriate and well-done...
Lips and fingers hungering for a white breast...
...seems to hear nothing but breast beating mea culpas, and what a bunch of fools you all are. You have the courage and ability to lead the world. In heaven's name, get on with...