Word: fust
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fore you know it everybody's bein' as colorful as a cartoon, droppin' g's, singin' passels of ungrammatical songs (" 'bout you, 'bout me, 'bout us, 'bout we") and pronouncin' just about ev-erythin' on the fust syllable: Ree-pub-lican, convention, Yew-nited States, till you'd like to die gagging at some of the laffs...
Most of the 18th century's intellectual love affairs between autocrats of the salon and fust plain autocrats were tetchy. Voltaire, who hated oppression, was oppressively tightfisted with money. Indeed, he made himself a millionaire as a moneylender. As the house guest of Frederick the Great, Voltaire was caught out in a shady currency-smuggling scheme. Frederick, the ruthless practitioner of Realpolitik, was shocked at the low moral code of writers. "If your work deserves statues," he wrote, "your conduct merits chains." Voltaire wrote to friends: "The King is an exceptional man-very attractive at a distance." The pair...