Word: disasterous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The Hater. Kennedy had been unable to recoup the Cuba disaster, and the defeat still rankles deeply. But he was certainly able to fight back against Big Steel -and he meant to do just that. To Kennedy, U.S. Steel's price-hike decision was a personal affront. Through Secretary...
After five by-election setbacks in a month, the prestige of Britain's ruling Conservative Party was in a shocking state. The Tories not only had the Labor Party to contend with these days (a most unsatisfactory alternative to most British voters), but were now confronted with a new...
He begins with the somber, subdued tones of the classic Dutch artists. But his study of Rubens' paintings in Antwerp and his overwhelming need to escape the disaster of his personal life in the joy of his art together served to brighten his palette. By the end of his life...
Rimbaud was the classic beautiful boy, whose fatal charm somehow carried within itself the seeds of disaster. Yet this boy, who stopped writing poetry at 21, reshaped the poetic idiom of his time, and left his imprint on the generations to come. For Rimbaud perfected, if he did not invent...
Ineffable Light. Since Moses & Co. enigmatically disclosed six weeks ago that the Guide would incorporate "a big decision about one Paris restaurant," culinary Cassandras have been predicting disaster for one of the capital's Big Four: Maxim's, Lapérouse, Grand Vefour, Tour d'Argent (which...