Word: disasterously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Macmillan's television performance was only the latest in a series of disappointments that have made Britain begin to question his leadership. Fortnight ago, while addressing the Oxford University Conservative Association, Macmillan was hooted down by undergraduates shouting "Give us more cliches." In the lobbies of Westminster and the...
Perhaps Mr. Gruen has had the good fortune of never experiencing even a 'natural' disaster, but those who have I feel sure resent his mockery of preparations to be made. '62, you said? You goddamn Harvard kids can laugh at a book like this now, but when such a war...
The day of astrological doom passed this week without global disaster. It was not even a good heavenly show. Seven planets bunched, as predicted, in the same small part of the sky, but since the sun was one of those "planets," its dazzling rays spoiled the spectacle. The moon, also...
Arizona Refuge. The orgy of superstition was not peculiar to Asia. Even sophisticated New York had its worriers, some of whom called the Hayden Planetarium for reassurance. In Southern California, western capital of cockeyed cults, local astrologers did their best business in years. Like their Indian colleagues, they predicted natural...
World War I should have begun with kettledrums, trumpeted fanfares, and a giant curtain rising majestically across the boundaries of Europe. It was the innocent, hideous war that ushered in the modern age. The bloody pageant had been in rehearsal for years. Never before had so many nations so thoroughly...