Word: damnedness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Teamed in tight-lipped pairs, a squad of determined men ranged the Pentagon last week. They were military gumshoes from the Air Force inspector general's office, sent out on a mission that was both sinister and ridiculous. "It's a damned comic opera,'' snapped a...
I am not retreating one damned step.
Drinking at Home. "I'll be damned if we're not selling more ashtrays than drinks." says white-haired Sherman Billingsley, owner of Manhattan's Stork Club, where business is off 35% and the waiters have just taken a 15% cut in pay. Among expense-accounters who...
The manifesto that appeared in Mexico City in 1961 seemed like the usual bombast from angry young painters out to attract as much attention as they could. In big blue capital letters, it blasted just about everything sacred to the Mexican art world. Damned as academismo were slavish and parochial...
Though he looks like a British version of Mr. Peepers, the likeness ends there. Theater Critic Bernard Levin is the enfant terrible of London's West End. Long the Manchester Guardian's television reviewer, he grew "weary of spitting into the wind" in 1958 and quit. As an...