Word: contradicter
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...plainly later than Bob Hope (who admits he is 57) and Lana Turner (who claims she is 40) like to think. In Paradise they are cast as a couple of gay young things in their middle 303, but the moving finger has inexorably written lines that contradict the ones they have to say. Their first fine rapture actually suggests a desperate last fling, their romantic moments sometimes seem mildly necromantic. The script, in any case, is guaranteed to make actors age rapidly. Almost every line in the picture ("I call this cocktail a bikini-there's not much...
...Purtell, a Manhattan-based housewife with a Midwestern upbringing, quotes an old hand on an old problem: "Our youth now loves luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority, disrespect for older people. Children nowadays are tyrants. They no longer rise when their elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble their food and tyrannize their teachers." The author, Mrs. Purtell points out with undisguised glee, is Socrates, and the time some 2,400 years...
...this encouraged the growing belief among economic policymakers-from "conservative" Federal Reserve Board Chairman William McChesney Martin Jr. to "liberal" Chief Presidential Economist Walter Heller-that the nation can have prosperity as well as stable prices. If so, that would contradict the inflationary pattern of previous postwar recoveries (see chart). But, as Treasury Under Secretary Robert Roosa says, "this recovery period is different from all others...
...mussed boys in need of haircuts (one beard), and ethereal girls in need of bras. Their wan look might have been due to their frugal lunch: beef broth, casaba melon. Duskin snapped them awake: "I don't allow irrelevant statements. Your comments must either advance my thought or contradict it." Firmly in control, Duskin hammered his theme-the dispassion of Homer. "Remember," he said, "Helen makes it in the end. She falls back on Menelaus, and they raise her kid, and even though she's the most beautiful chick in the world, everything's cool...
...mass-produced. Yet his recent buildings in India are in a sense almost handmade. He was all logic in his city planning, almost wholly geometric in his early houses; but his newer Ronchamp Chapel and the monastery of La Tourette are romantic sculptural explosions that seem to contradict everything he said before...