Word: fussing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...those students are actually liberated, why the fuss, the cheap publicity, the organizations, the gimmicky buttons? This can only encourage the frustrated unenlightened to strike back with more deadly and repulsive conventional morality. Nietzsche warns: "Beware when you fight a monster that you do not become a monster yourself." Now that you at Berkeley have got over being ashamed of your bodies, take a look at your minds...
Both the ladies play revolutionaries touring Mexico as chanteuses in a vaudeville troupe. Much fuss is made over the coincidence of their both being named Marie, but it's never played for the Plautian confusions suggested when someone Anglicizes "Marie et Marie! Tres bon!" Eyes glinting in a slow, portentous fade...
...President was plainly annoyed by the fuss over his failure to meet with Hartke, a onetime protégé, and a delegation of 200 fellow Indianans. After all, it was 8 a.m. when the touring Hoosiers arrived at the White House, and the President's attention was already occupied by developments in Viet Nam. Hartke's presence, the White House insisted, had nothing to do with Johnson's inability to make the scene...
...Communism. After 1962, the metabolism of the Cold War changed: for both the U.S. and the USSR, international politics became gradually secularized. The metaphysical became negotiable, the abhorrent understandable, to the extent that we could tacitly accept the Cuban revolution while the Russians could look on without much fuss as we armed West Germany with nuclear weapons...
...creative maestros, of course, don't just fuss around with combs and brushes. In their hands, the simplest hairdo is attended by pomp (goldplated shampoo basins, crystal chandeliers and reclining chairs) and circumstances (perfumed air, Muzak, and a cast of supporting players that includes one girl who does nothing but help customers with their zippers). They are whirlwind travelers who can comb out 250 New York debutantes one day, rinse an Italian princess the next, and pin a pony tail on a marquesa in Spain before nightfall (Alexandre's itinerary took him around the world twice just...