Word: flopped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...campaign issue has now boomeranged. Critics are saying that because of the Administration's record on Cuba and the apparent flop of U.S. hopes in Western Europe, the U.S. has lost prestige abroad. At the President's press conference a fortnight ago, a newsman asked Kennedy whether official prestige polls "are now being taken." He admitted that they were, but he conspicuously passed up the chance to counter the critics' charges with figures. Instead, he dismissed prestige polls by saying that the U.S. "is known to be a defender of freedom and is known to carry major...
...made a small speech, saying that "art knows no national boundaries," since Jack London, Mark Twain, Ernest Hemingway and John Steinbeck are read in the Soviet Union, while Tolstoy, Dostoevsky and Pasternak are read in the U.S. While the whole affair was a financial success, it was a cultural flop, especially for those in the National Armory. The acoustics were so bad, the atmosphere so close and the program so poor that nearly half of the audience walked out before it was half over...
...unstrung hero of the piece is 41-year-old Playwright Arthur Sumner Long, whose Broadway debut has left him slightly shell-shocked from the force of a direct hit. As unassuming as his play, Long, a father of two, admits he was even less prepared for a flop: "I wouldn't have dared to go home to Los Angeles. The children-they give you such a sendoff-you hate to sneak back tarred and feathered." A longtime TV writer, Long joshes about his labor pains with Never Too Late: "Eight weeks to write, six years to retype...
...high point of peace and quiet for the Cambridge Police Department, and another low one for Yale Weekend rioting. The hand tried to hold a rally the night before the game, but apathy resigned as more policeman attended than students. "The riot," declared the CRIMSON, "was a flop...
Hopeless from the Start. On the whole, the audiences seemed to like the absence of decorations that overwhelm the dancers in Bolshoi productions such as Spartacus. Said Composer Aram Khachaturian : "If Balanchine had done the choreography for my Spartacus, it wouldn't have been a flop." Balanchine politely disagreed. Spartacus was hopeless from the start, he said, because it was based on a false conception. Like much of Russian ballet, it subordinated music and dancing to plot and decoration, whereas ballet should be music and dance - first, last and foremost...