Word: cleverer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...remember what they used to say about us in the National Press? We were their hope and their fear. First, the generation of activists: the ones who had overcome the "apathy of the sleeping '50's." But then at the prep schools some clever Life magazine correspondent had dubbed us the Negos," the super-sophisticate boys, the kids who were negative, sarcastic, caustic, alienated, and bitter about everything that touched them. We were the ones who thought it was uncool to show emotion, to become involved, to be loved or engage...
...remember what they used to say about us in National Press? We were their hope and their fear. First, the generation of activists: the one who had overcome the "apathy of the sleeping '50's." But then at the prep schools some clever Life magazine correspondent had dubbed us the "Negos," the super-sophisticate boys, the kids who were negative, sarcastic, caustic, alienated, and bitter about everything that touched them. We were the ones who thought it was uncool to show emotion, to become involved, to be love are engage...
...reached Palma, Majorca, where the special attraction was a twelve-mile trip to the monastery at Valldemosa to eat a buffet dinner and hear a recital of Chopin's piano music by that handsome Frenchman Samson François. The monastery was cold and damp, but those clever people from the Renaissance brought along bundles of plaid blankets to cover everybody up. Poor Chopin. He lived in the monastery for two months with his, pardon me, mistress, George Sand, and they say that he nearly died of the chill. He could have used some of those plaids...
Scholars have long considered the story a clever but farfetched hoax. How could those Middle Eastern mariners in their small ships actually have made a landfall on the shores of the New World hundreds of years before Columbus or the Vikings or the half-dozen other claimants of the discovery of the Americas? Now, a respected authority on Semitic languages, Professor Cyrus H. Gordon of Brandeis University, has discovered additional evidence that may moderate the scholarly skepticism...
...massed roadblocks of commercial hypocrisy. Buckthorne's mortal fatigue may be the result of amorous overindulgence. Then again it may just stem from the fact that he seems to have starred in so many recent comic novels. But Cassill's prose is swift, precise and clever, and on the strength of it Rodney may be worth one final evening's visit before he is turned out to pasture...