Word: maximalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...loophole in Henry's law. "I will not take the oath," he announces gravely to Thomas Cromwell (Leo Mc-Kern), the leader of the King's pack of political jackals. "I will not tell you why I will not." Cromwell: "This silence is denial!" More: "The maxim of the law is, 'Silence gives consent.' " Cromwell: "Is that what the world construes?" More: "The world must construe according to its wits. The court must construe according...
Today people who save string or old clothes in attics are likely to run into psychologists who tell them that such hoarding is neurotic, or economists who prove it uneconomical, or architects who simply do not provide enough storage space for it. The new American maxim, Columbia University's John Kouwenhoven has suggested, should be: "Waste not, have not." This does not signify that waste has become accepted in the U.S.-on the contrary. It is only that its meaning has changed. Neither Cotton Mather nor Malthus nor Marx anticipated a society in which only 15% of the population...
Behind her were two years of preparation-eight hours a day devoted to her maxim that "a work of art must be broken into a thousand pieces if it is to survive in the eternal." She bought a piano that had been built in Mozart's time, played it repeatedly to test its limitations, concluded that because of its fragile construction the composer expected his music to be played with a softer touch than is customary among modern pianists. Says she: "I eat, I talk, I clean my teeth, but always in the back of my head...
...fact, the novelty of having women appear in pants suits has headwaiters across the country in a swither. Chicago's Maxim's and Manhattan's "21," for instance, maintain a rigid ban, while other top restaurants allow them, provided that the suits are sufficiently dressy. Beverly Hills Restaurateur Steven Crane (the SCAM, the Luau, plus a chain extending to seven other cities) recently called a summit meeting to set national policy. His guideline: if the whole party is sufficiently "cocktailly" or black tie, the pants suits get seated...
...60th birthday. Composer Dmitri Shostakovich received another gift too: the Soviet title of Hero of Socialist Labor. Best of all was the successful first Moscow performance of his new piece, Cello Concerto No. 2, conducted by a similarly slight, bespectacled musician: Dmitri's 28-year-old son Maxim...