Word: finer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...conviction that readers' tastes were not much above Pithecanthropus level: "The habits of savagery have been welded into the mind and body of man for ten thousand centuries, while it is only sixty centuries that he has had more or less leisure and opportunity to develop the finer things of life." Asking himself what a literate Neanderthal might enjoy, Goddard answered the question every Sunday, with stories about sex ("The Outrageous French Bathing Suits"), sex cum science ("Science Explains Why Chorus Girls Are Suffering from a Love Famine"), sex cum violence ("Beat Her Lover to Death in Her Vengeful...
...Holly (Audrey Hepburn) is not much different from Capote's. She has kicked the weed and lost the illegitimate child she was having, but she is still jolly Holly, the child bride from Tulip, Texas, who at 15 runs away to Hollywood to find some of the finer things of life-like shoes. At 18, she is established in a posh Manhattan flat and living off the fatheads of the land. The flat is furnished with a bathtub (sawed in half to make a sofa), a refrigerator (containing a pair of shoes), a telephone (in a suitcase), a pink...
...says John Bloom, 29-and he has got rich quick by giving them what they want. In just three years Bloom has captured 12% of Britain's washing-machine market by borrowing U.S. mass production methods, of showing a fine disregard for conservative British business habits and a finer knack for underselling competitors...
...specifications at the Mead Paper Co. in Kingsport, Tenn., and flew down to make sure of the quality. Engravings were made in New York by Len Perskie. Then Phillips was off to Detroit to oversee the reproduction by the Safran Printing Co., which used an offset press to give finer detail. To Phillips, it is all part of the week's work, but there can be nothing casual about careful color reproduction...
...fret over the health of the honey locust trees near his home. Steeled in Wall Street's rough and tumble, Dillon preserves a diffident professorial manner, and revels in tastes that few of his countrymen share: vintage wines. Savile Row suits (from Henry Poole & Co.). fine paintings and finer porcelain...