Word: damns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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About that cover of Premier Nasser: I must say that he has grown a lot uglier since your last cover [Sept. 26, 1955]. The trouble with you people is that sometimes you discover the ugliness in some characters a damn sight too late...
...There are also such suggestions of enchanting evenings as Ethel Merman in Happy Hunting, with a book by Life With Father's Howard Lindsay-Russel Grouse; Li'l Abner, based on Al Capp's comic strip, with songs by Johnny Mercer; Pay the Piper by George (Damn Yankees, The Pa jama Game) Abbott, based on Eugene O'Neill's Anna Christie. Three other musicals will star such topnotch musicomedy personalities as Nancy Walker, Judy Holliday, Bert Lahr...
...various forms, that prayer reappears throughout all of Toynbee's writings. In an era when most historians, of what Toynbee himself has called the just-one-damn-thing-after-another school, saw religion either as a block to progress or else considered it beside the point, Toynbee gave history not only a pattern but a spiritual end. He reached the conclusion that man's real history is religieus history and that civilizations are really nothing but steppingstones in man's progress to deeper spiritual insight. Yet Toynbee, an Anglican in childhood, always showed himself so ready...
...religion has made Arthur Langlie into no holier-than-thou. He socializes easily, goes to parties, can stand glassless and gay at a cocktail party without making drinkers feel awkward. His conversation is punctuated occasionally by a "damn" or "hell." But religion has shaped a fierce, almost fanatic zeal for honest government, coupled with a conviction that all responsible citizens should participate. A political reporter once listened to a minor Langlie speech, reported later: "There was nothing new in what the governor said. But every voter who heard him was made to feel that the future of the republic depended...
...when she said, 'You're all a lost generation.' . . . We all said, 'Whee! We're lost.' " Of her own verse: "I was following in the exquisite footsteps of Miss [Edna St. Vincent] Millay, unhappily in my own horrible sneakers. My verses are no damn good. Let's face it, honey, my verse is terribly dated." Of the difference between wit and wisecracking: "Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words." Of being rich: "I hate almost all rich people, but I think I'd be darling...