Word: dismissing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...colleagues at his own professional level, who will invariably live on a standard inconceivably higher than that of the peasant and who will in most cases be quite jealous of their own status and position. He will also find that the villagers, instead of living him, will quite rightly dismiss him as a lunatic...
Kennedy Will Fail. From the tone of his talk, Lippmann's garrulous host seemed ready to dismiss the small countries as inconsequential pawns in the power struggle. Khrushchev was more concerned with Red China ("I felt that he thought China as a problem of the future") Germany and the U.S. While exhibiting no animus" to U.S. President John F. Kennedy, Khrushchev was convinced that Kennedy would fail in his efforts to reinvigorate the U.S. economy. Why? Because, said Khrushchev, "Rockefeller" and "Du Pont" won't let him. Confided Columnist Lippmann in a wry aside to his readers...
Liberal critics may be tempted to dismiss Midcentury as a piece of biological conservatism brought on by the author's 66 years. Yet Dos Passos also still tilts at the U.S. commercial spirit. In pages dotted with ad slogans, he even achieves a kind of running parody of the affluent society, e.g., "KEEPS A MAN so ODOR-FREE A BLOODHOUND COULDN'T FIND HIM," "DON'T BE A DISHWASHER. BUY ONE," "IF YOU KNOW THE WOMAN WHO SHOULD HAVE THIS...
...best of the home-grown dramas include the tender, poetic family chronicle, All the Way Home, and Advise and Consent, a tense political melodrama. As for the musicals: although it is currently fashionable to dismiss it, Camelot holds many treasures that make it worth seeing; Do Re Mi survives only through the shenanigans of Stars Phil Silvers and Nancy Walker. Which leaves two of the year's least pretentious works but also its zingiest -Carol Channing's satirical revue, Show Girl, and An Evening with Mike Nichols and Elaine...
...Irma La Douce. The domestic dramas include the tender, poetic family chronicle, All the Way Home; Advise and Consent, a tense political melodrama; and Tennessee Williams' Period of Adjustment, a lively but somehow disappointing comedy-lecture on marital success. Among the musicals: although it is currently fashionable to dismiss it, Camelot holds many treasures that make it worth seeing; Do Re Mi, a Runyonesque piece, is nearly salvaged by the antics of Phil Silvers and Nancy Walker. And two of the season's smallest-scale efforts are also its sprightliest-Carol Channing's satirical revue, Show Girl...