Word: maximalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nouveau is the interior at Maxim's, the typography of McCall's, the Ziegfeld Theater, the shopping bags of London's Elliott shoe company, the gaudy Metro exit at Paris' Place de la Bastille, the Postal Savings Bank building in Vienna, the curly white painted Italian furniture, Tiffany lamps, Gallé vases, books with spiraling Aubrey Beardsley designs, and twisted, forged-iron banisters now flooding art shops and galleries...
...biggest blow to Scranton's candidacy came in Illinois. There, old Ev Dirksen proved the truth of Santayana's maxim: "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." Dirksen may not read much Santayana, but he remembers his past political history, and he has no intention of repeating it. This time he fully intends to be on what he feels is the winning side...
...Anyone who has threescore years and ten resents it," growled Edward, Duke of Windsor, vetoing cake and candles for his 70th birthday dinner at Maxim's. But somehow he seemed anything but resentful. At an 18th century costume ball for 600 given by Countess Sheila de Rochambeau at her chateau outside Paris, the duke in lace jabot and Royal Stewart tartan kilt danced the night away with his duchess, an enchantress ablaze in shimmering red cloak and white feathered wig designed by Yves St. Laurent...
...race. It showed that there is still plenty of life in the Grand Old Party. To those Republicans who think there is no chance of beating Democrat Lyndon Johnson this year, Rocky demonstrated that "where there's life, there's hope" is more an axiom than a maxim. Above all, Rockefeller's Oregon win increased what has been called the "scatteration" of strength in the Republican presidential picture. And in so doing, it greatly increased the possibility that the so-called Republican kingmakers-the amalgam of corporation executives, party professionals and publishers-who have so far been...
...speeches gave Maxim Gorky the impression of the "cold glitter of steel shavings," from which arose "with amazing simplicity the perfectly fashioned figure of truth." Even when they knew that he was lying, many men implicitly believed Lenin. He stunned his followers when he denounced the Kerensky government as the bourgeois enemy and vowed to bring it down. Then Lenin proceeded to demonstrate "the fine art of insurrection...