Word: compliments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...called her pretty. She likens other women to swans and skylarks, but finds herself described (by such an expert as Designer Cecil Beaton) as "an authoritative crane." Though she is a generous flatterer of the physical attributes of others, even her own admiring friends must strain to return a compliment ("Well," said one, straining, "she has a strange and marvelous spine"). Her walk has been described as a camel's gait, her nose as something stolen off a cigar-store Indian. Yet thousands of women cut their hair because of her, cream their skins, shorten their sleeves, and belt...
...reluctance to consider the significance of life in any terms but his own, and it is a fault that becomes the very spirit of Jung's book. The only encounter of his life he discusses in detail is his stormy meeting with Freud, to whom Jung pays the compliment of a full chapter (Jung's wife of 52 years is scarcely mentioned...
...will infallibly come in the fading out of the sullenness or depression, and the advent of real cheerfulness and kindliness in their stead. Smooth the brow, brighten the eye, contract the dorsal rather than the ventral aspect of the frame, and speak in a major key, pass the genial compliment and your heart must be frigid indeed if it do not gradually thaw...
Keating responded by calling Volpe "one of the great Americans of our time," and attempted to top the compliment by mentioning Volpe's name in connection with the 1964 Republican convention. Here Keating's sense of political realities apparently got the better of him, however, as he wound up. "Many names are being bruited around for 1964, and it would be well not to forget the name of John...Romney...
Some, like Gaylord Nelson, were quite frank about admitting the Establishment's existence: "It's natural for power to gravitate to people who know how to use it." Most of them justified the system with the back-handed compliment that they couldn't think of anything better...