Word: dismaying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pound on a U.N. desk with his shoe to frighten the world has really been utterly inept. In fact, suggests Pushkov (and Author Beal) in a pointed reversal of cliches, it was the Russian bigwigs who saw Khrushchev "playing American roulette with Russian security" and looked on with dismay as he became "soft" on capitalism...
Richard A. Rand '62 editor of the Advocate, seemed as disappointed as the rest. "That's awful," he said in dismay. One wasn't sure whether he was speaking of the abortive welcoming demonstration or the ticket sales. Only 250 showed up in Sanders Theater to hear Rexroth Saturday...
...most of Japan's 94 million people, the frequent mild earthquakes that rattle windows and dismay tourists are routine works of the gods. But the nearly 3,000 employees of Dentsu Advertising, Ltd. are subject to other tremors and are often heard to groan: "Oh Oni is angry again." Oh Oni-or Big Demon-is no evil spirit from the nether world, but the nickname of Dentsu's autocratic, dynamically modern-minded president, Hideo Yoshida, 57, who almost singlehanded has built Dentsu into the world's fifth largest* advertising agency with yearly billings...
Described by a New York critic as a surrealistic mishmash of "Eliot Ness, Together Ness and Pointless Ness," the season was one of unhappy comedy and unhealthy violence, of defections, dismissals and dismay. CBS lost its able News Division President Sig Mickelson. and ABC squeezed out veteran Newscaster John Daly. CBS's Edward R. Murrow took his tobacco habit to Washington as head of the U.S. Information Agency (see PRESS). Writer-Producer (The Sacco-Vanzetti Story) Robert Alan Aurthur quit TV with the parting shot: "Television may be unique in our free-enterprise system in that the harder...
...with a radical change of style: a neoclassic Rubens-like technique featuring long-maned nudes, long-maned horses, knights in armor, and a series of self-portraits, some clothed in fancy dress and some in flabby flesh. To the artist's bitter dismay, his one-man revolution, aimed at the "horrible bestiality called modern art," failed to spark a following. Cognoscenti shunned the new technique and subject matter; De Chirico stubbornly stuck to his anachronistic style...