Word: clubs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...city" is part of its drive to bring a little austerity to Saigon and make it more in tune with the war-wounded countryside. Both the Saigon government and U.S. officials have been concerned that the honky-tonk establishments (bearing such names as Eve, Blue Angel and the Bunny Club) are making tawdry neon jungles of such once elegant neighborhoods as the Rue Catinat of Graham Greene's The Quiet American. In March of 1966, General William Westmoreland, aware that the off-duty activities of U.S. troops were beginning to alienate sensitive Vietnamese, initiated Operation Moose (Move...
...Radziwill, 34, to fly over from London to admire his work. She applauded so well that he spirited her off to Monaco for a gala chez Princess Grace. Not content with two performances at the Monte Carlo Opera, Rudi fetched Lee onto the floor at the Black Jack Club for what was probably his first pas de deux anywhere in a fur Mao Tse-tung jacket. "Rudolf dances almost as well in private as he does onstage," Lee marveled...
...expected to see 20% more doctors and pharmacists a week than competing salesmen and to increase their sales consistently. Those who pass these tests are rewarded with air-conditioned cars, color television sets, shotguns and longer vacations. Ultimately, the most productive salesmen are admitted to membership in the "M Club." They get an Oldsmobile instead of a Chevrolet or Ford as a company car, take double vacations and stay in hotel suites instead of rooms...
...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, and Mr. Bluff a great novelist. One of poshlost's favorite breeding places has always been...
...Interviewed you at length? You spilled all? Jeeves, this time you've gone too far. I'll never hear the end of it at the Drones Club. It pains me, Jeeves, but you're sacked...