Word: looks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...confident gesture of no blesse oblige. The switch in styles reflected the men's change of fortune. On election eve, all the auguries and omens indicated that Pompidou was assured of becoming the next President of France. Final polls gave him a comfortable 58% of the expected vote. Looking Ahead. Poher had no illusions about his chances. Nearly a week before the balloting, he promised to send Pompidou a congratulatory telegram on election night once the outcome was clear, "just the way a defeated presidential candidate does in the U.S." Nonetheless, he felt it his duty to campaign...
...long chain of deceptions and false appearances-gods turning into dwarfs, dwarfs turning into cats and, above all, beautiful women turning into death-dealing hags. The outcome of these tales was that the gods were usually razzed, the lowly were usually razzed too, and sex was made to look grotesque. Not so different from other people's legends perhaps, except in their very high quotient of mockery; but Ireland's history, or rather the lack of it, has decreed a strange long life to them. The gods turned eventually into English landlords, and later into American tourists...
Pessimism may be the last part of the heritage to go. The Irish are leary of hope look at where it got them in the past! But no one under 50 takes refuge in the Patriot Game any more, that truculent dirge over Ireland's glorious failures...
...attention to the nurses, since their influence on the patients was pervasive. In a series of group discussions, he was able to make the nurses believe that, despite their feelings of futility, they were performing a crucial if difficult duty. Most important of all, Klagsbrun encouraged the nurses to look upon the patients in a more realistic and candid way. Death, he insisted, should not be treated like a delicate china vase; nor, he adds, should patients be considered as all that fragile, even though death hangs over them...
...mentioned that he did not particularly enjoy being called a "spade cat." Cavett allowed as how he could understand that. After all, "The old maid in the apartment above me lives with a spayed cat." Caught on-camera taking a telephone call from the producer, Cavett flashed an exasperated look and ad-libbed: "I've told you never to call me at work, Miss Lollobrigida...