Word: compliments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney, 67, so admired the artist's primitive entitled Snow Bird that he snapped it up for $200 at the exhibition in Manhattan's Wally F. Galleries. Artist Marylou Whitney returned the compliment, laying out $300 for Belted Kingfisher, one of Sonny's nature studies. Luckily, a swarm of other customers also turned up at the champagne party opening the show to pay a total of $8,825 for the 37 works that Mr. and Mrs. Whitney had painted to benefit the Edward R. Murrow Memorial Fund of Manhattan's Overseas Press Club...
Avant-garde French moviemakers study Hollywood directors, who return the compliment. Basic rock 'n' roll, formed in the U.S., peaked in England with the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, who proceeded to influence U.S. music. The French invented the discothèque, but the discaīre at New Jimmy's in Paris plays mostly American records. Italian coffeehouses proliferate in big U.S. cities, while the Italians wear Jantzen swimsuits on their beaches. Japanese transistor radios, TVs and tape recorders do as well in New York as James Baldwin's novels in Tokyo or Edward Albee...
...critic penned the following: "I'm writing to tell you that I'm going to be Governor some day. My father says I should finish grade school first, because I need an eighth-grade education to be as smart as you." Shrugged Sawyer: "A left-handed compliment is better than no compliment...
...G.O.P. Gubernatorial Candidate Ronald Reagan comes close to representing that kind of debilitating conservatism, but he is ready and willing to be convinced otherwise. When Reagan visited Washington last week, Javits made a point of meeting him, addressing him as "Ron" and beaming when the actor reciprocated with the compliment, "Senator, I met your lovely wife...
...guys, incipient madmen, badgered Everymen, victims. Their motto, says Daniel Aaron, professor of English at Smith, seems to be, "Call me schlemiel." In more mundane life, there is much revulsion against the pose, if not the reality, of heroism. "Ya wanna be a hero?" is a mockery, not a compliment...