Word: kaput
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...time for a man despite his actions. A Navy veteran in 1946, he won a House seat at the age of 33. He was elected Senator at 37 and Vice President at 39. Ten years later, defeated for the Presidency and the governorship of California, he certified himself politically kaput. Most of the press agreed, including TIME. In 1966, sensing the vacuum in the party, Nixon campaigned tirelessly for G.O.P. candidates in 35 states and claimed a major share in that year's victory. Nixon is only 55, but he has been a national figure for nearly a generation...
...published list changed the private ball to a public event, and gave the social columnists and sociologists a chance to move in. "Almost a joke," said Cleveland Amory, author of Who Killed Society? "Fond as I am of Truman, I think we can say that society is not only kaput-it is Capote." Max Lerner was reminded of Historian Daniel Boorstin's observation that the events of our time turn out, all too frequently, to be pseudo-events...
Another result is that, with such major designers as Bill Blass taking an interest, suits have taken on new subtleties of structure. "Several years ago, the thought was that any woman could be packed into a suit by way of girdling and boning, but today this is kaput," says Bette Beck, chief designer for Elisabeth Stewart. "It takes all the romance out of a swimming suit when a woman has to be pushed in here and held up there. Such a woman has a stamped-out look-very unsexy...
...Felix's life, even appropriates one of his mistresses. He composes critical jargon so dense that he himself cannot penetrate it ("What the hell do I mean by that?"), writes atrocious music, and finally wheedles Felix into playing it. Once compromised, the cellist collapses, corporeally and artistically kaput...
...looking through the other end of the telescope. He will be charged with building a sound U.S. economy to assure the basis of free world strength. "He knows," said a friend last week, "that if you are successful everywhere else and your financial structure is gone, you're kaput...