Word: disasterously
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There are some people who, out of respect for the law of contradiction, might begin to question an "ideal" when it produces results like the bloody disaster that is Chile today. Mr. Swanson and the Crimson staff are apparently not among them.
This was perhaps one of the mildest provocations Visconti has offered the festival and the city itself: his latest Ludwig is a disaster excused only by reports that the director's illness forced its completion by a substitute, and Death in Venice, the films, which first marked Visconti's decline...
The licensee gets some latitude in selecting which local promotions and public service projects to bankroll, but no choice whatever as to whether to be a do-gooder or not. Community service is a Ray Kroc obsession, and every McDonald's licensee is expected to spend a generous portion...
In a year when its economic policy generally has been lurching from failure to disaster, the Nixon Administration has been able to take solace from a positively eerie quiet on the labor front. Despite soaring inflation, despite ballooning corporate profits, the big unions have settled one by one for pay...
Long before the revisionist historians appeared, way back during the cold war, when the U.S. still believed that freedom to spend and freedom to vote were signs of an inviolable national excellence, Emmet John Hughes wrote a book called America the Vincible. A former journalist, Hughes had served as an...