Word: damns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...generation of the '205 was devoutly iconoclastic. It put on (in the words of T. S. Eliot) "the black cap of jem'en joutisme"-of I-don't-give-a-damn-ism. It discovered with a mixture of horror and delight that it was living in a brand-new age, the 20th Century, and it decided to burn all the old cultural furniture. This huge fire, while it caused incalculable damage, cast a sharp, new light across U.S. civilization-and encouraged the younger generation of that day to do a whooping war dance around it. Gertrude Stein...
...days, a helicopter windmilled through grey, moist skies and gingerly deposited a grinning Eisenhower on the flight deck of the Roosevelt. There he watched the Navy's Corsairs, Skyraiders and twin-jet Banshees bombing and strafing a ten-foot-square wooden target floating abeam of the carrier. "Damn, that's shooting," Eisenhower muttered admiringly...
...your Sept. 10 issue, the reference to "Sophocles Venizelos, a bridge-playing, bumbling, well-intentioned Liberal," leaves me baffled. Do you mean that you're for him or ag'in' him? I thought, at first reading, that you were trying to damn him with faint praise; then I wondered if you might not be trying to praise him with faint damns. Surely even a Liberal ought to have good intentions; and what does bridge-playing indicate in a politician,.except maybe a liking for bridge? And when you say that he bumbles . . . what is it that...
Nevertheless, when the Band has to scrape the bottom of its financial barrel, as it is doing now, nobody seems to give a damn. The H.A.A. just shakes its head over a ream of red-inked ledgers and the alumni point apologetically to the new income tax laws; there is no money coming from either source. That leaves the Band's future up to students...
...than in the last quarter of this year. Cried Charlie Wilson: "I just won't accept that answer. We have got to have at least a million more tons to distribute in the first quarter and another million or two million tons in the second quarter . . . Get this damn scrap...