Word: breath
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...better than Russia' or 'We all share in Germany's guilt.' The flowers of poshlost bloom in such phrases and terms as 'the moment of truth,' 'charisma,' 'existential' (used seriously), 'dialogue' (as applied to political talks between nations) and 'vocabulary' (as applied to a dauber). Listing in one breath Auschwitz, Hiroshima and Viet Nam is seditious poshlost. Belonging to a very select club (which sports one Jewish name, that of the treasurer) is genteel poshlost. Hack reviews are frequently poshlost, that is simple, but it also lurks in certain highbrow essays. Poshlost calls Mr. Blank a great poet...
...such fine distinctions, if they ever existed at all. All the evidence coming out of Hanoi indicates a unified opposition to negotiations of any kind and for any purpose with the United States. As for his divided allies, Ho always scrupulously praises both Russia and China in the same breath, even though Moscow insists that it is now providing more than 80% of North Viet Nam's wherewithal to carry on the war under U.S. aerial pressure...
...country with little history of balletomania, the U.S. has made amends in grand fashion since 1945. In the post war years, the U.S. has brought forth first-rate dance companies in breath-taking abundance-and the latest to appear belongs near the top of the list. Currently in its first Manhattan engagement after three years of barnstorming, the Harkness Ballet has generated among audiences a brand of excitement that brings back memories of the early days of the New York City Ballet...
...next several seconds, McCurdy held his breath as Yale got three men in and Navy four before the big, improving Heyburn sprinted home. Then when Mcloone and Howe galloped in, the second Heps victory of the Coach's Harvard career was complete...
...only that he loves the New England hills, the prairies glistening in the sun, the wide and rising plains, the great mountains, and the sea. He means that he loves an inner air, an inner light in which freedom lives and in which a man can draw the breath of self-respect." Eric Hoffer, the philosopher-longshoreman has a more prosaic but very pragmatic description: "The day-to-day competence of the workingman." He adds: "If I said I was loading ships for Mother America, even during a war, I would be laughed off the docks. In Russia, they...