Word: liar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...best remembered today for a couple of short stories and one humorous poem. Biographer O'Connor gives Harte his due both as a literary figure and as a silken-mustached rascal, who snubbed his friends and was once feelingly described by Mark Twain as a coward, a liar, a swindler, a born loafer and an s.o.b...
Bret Harte had many admirers and almost no friends. Mark Twain, who respected Harte's work, called the author a coward, a liar, a swindler, a thief, a snob, a sot, a born loafer and a son of a bitch. When autograph hounds enclosed return postage in their letters, it is said that Harte used the stamps to pay his overdue butcher's bill. He was an instant success at 32, and at his prime was the most popular author the U.S. had ever known. Yet, though he sold everything he wrote and his collected writing fills...
Castro's Loss. Piqued by the setback, Peking called Castro a liar and accused him of unfairly juggling trade figures. Castro hit back last week with charges of "grand hypocrisy" and "contempt for smaller peoples." The feud could well lead to a break in diplomatic relations, has already gone far enough to impair Red China's hold on its one major base for espionage and subversion in the Western Hemisphere...
...post-Sputnik missile and satellite surge, felt its fortunes sag. As recently as 1964, the management consultant firm of Arthur D. Little, Inc., declared flatly: "Aerospace is no longer a growing market." Today the Little expert who presided over that report readily admits: "The Viet Cong made a liar out of me." This is true-for the moment. Without question, the U.S. military buildup in Viet Nam gave new life to the aero space companies. But the industry, having learned its lesson the hard way in hard times, has also entered a new era of diversification and innovation, of producing...
Bowled Over. Lara, in Pasternak's phrase, was "unequaled in spiritual beauty-martyred, stubborn, extravagant, crazy, irresponsible, adored." Besides, during the film she must range in age from 17 to 40. When Lean tested Julie Christie, 24, for Lara, he had seen her only in Billy Liar-in which by simply walking wordlessly down a street she made cinema history. Asked to fly to Madrid for a screen test, Julie figured, "They must be off their nuts," went mainly for the free holiday...