Word: hyphen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Teheran. "This is the result of the clairvoyant action of President de Gaulle with regard to the Viet Nam War," exulted long-time De Gaulle Critic Valery Giscard d'Estaing. Some French officials saw the parley as an opportunity for le grand Charles to establish himself as an outsize hyphen between East and West and a buffer between Hanoi and the U.S. Others spoke of Paris' long history as a site for crucial talks?perhaps overlooking such notable failures as the 1946 talks with Vietnamese nationalists that led directly to the French-Indochinese war and the Treaty of Versailles that...
...ironic barb of his deadpan stories. The three inventions-with the waning of Dos Passos' reputation-have been dismissed as fashionable quirks of the experimental '30s, like that of e e cummings' renunciation of the capital letter or Dos Passes' own abhorrence of the hyphen. It can now be seen that they were more than razzmatazz...
Some of the biggest names in British exports are double-barreled: Rolls-Royce, Mini-Minor, Terry-Thomas. Even without the hyphen, the actor's face would probably have made his name familiar the world over. Its features are a bounderish British blend of sad sack and pukka sahib: busby brows that shoot up in startled innocence or beetle down with Mac the Knife malevolence; lugubrious eyes rocketing around like apoplectic billiard balls; a Scotch-sodden thatch of mustache, and, of course, those two front teeth, gaping wide as Becher's Brook. Wherever he takes a stroll, from Soho...
...wonder. In its plot, Fail Safe is strangely similar to Peter George's Red Alert, the 1958 novel on which Dr. Strangelove is based. When Fail-Safe (the book was sold to Hollywood but the hyphen apparently was not) was published in 1962, Novelist George sued Novelists Burdick and Wheeler for plagiarism. They settled out of court for undisclosed considerations. In any case, the issue is now academic; both pictures were produced by the same company (Columbia...
Neither brother ever misses an opportunity to downplay himself. Says Jacob, who is chairman of 13 companies: "The only reason I'm on so many boards is that I've been around so long." Marcus is even more self-effacing: "I am nothing," he says, "but a hyphen between generations." In one sense, he is right. His son Marc, 38, has already taken over the presidency of the Enskilda Bank, and is being groomed to be the next head of the clan...