Word: exceptional
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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achieves an emotional consummation that just cannot be improved. Like the Lincoln Continental, these revelations-of-mind are a polished but exhausted perfection. Where can one go from here except to the distressing extreme of Anne Sexton writing "In Celebration of My Uterus?" The poetry of discovery and sincerity becomes a simplistic, gratuitous poetry of exposure, and that sacred "space" vanishes at the boundaries of private experience...
Lodge's eagerness to return to Massachusetts had been well known for more than a month (TIME, Oct. 17). He gave "personal matters at home" as his reason for leaving. Except for a few months' leave, Lodge has seen little of his family, which includes two married sons and ten grandchildren, since he became President Kennedy's Ambassador to Viet Nam in 1963. "I am not a diplomat. I am a family man, and I miss my family," Lodge explained. Lodge probably would have stayed on if he had seen any sign of movement in the talks...
Eventually, the astronauts reached the southern rim of the 656-ft.-wide Surveyor Crater. Descending slowly, they walked to the Surveyor spacecraft. Except for a thin coating of lunar dust and white paint that may have turned tan in the intense sunlight, it had apparently been unharmed by its long exposure on the lunar surface. While Dean photographed the spacecraft, Conrad picked up some valuable souvenirs. First, he clipped off some of Surveyor's insulated TV cable, which had contained a known quantity of microorganisms when it left the earth; by examining the cable after it is returned...
...brimming, arabesque body (37-22-35) have launched thousands of picture spreads. The mere mention of her name (or the sight of it, in endless Laugh-In balloon gags) is high-premium chuckle insurance for every TV and nightclub humor writer in the land. After 15 films that range, except for Bedazzled, from unintentionally risible to just plain awful, she is worth more than $4,000,000, earns about $950,000 a year. Even more astonishing, she has succeeded in becoming the No. 1 sex symbol in a world in which sex has been stripped of its last, diaphanous shred...
Voltaire failed from a kind of perfection. Everything came easily to him except a certain divinely vulgar excess. He was, as one critic complained, a "chaos of clear ideas." He accused Shakespeare of being "barbarous," "unbridled," "low" and "absurd." Exactly. And that coarse strength is what we miss at last in Voltaire. By his masterly demonstration of the farthest reach of reason, he finally showed how much lies beyond...