Word: maximation
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...honest man has no need to flee the law, as the maxim says, does a disinclination to run indicate innocence...
...Edsel II, a student of business at Massachusetts' Babson Institute. He told his daughters about his impending marriage to his second wife Cristina only 24 hours before it occurred. He met Cristina, a blonde Italian divorcee who looks like a Mediterranean Ingrid Bergman, in 1960 at a party in Maxim's in Paris. In 1964, when he was divorced by his wife of 23 years, the former Anne McDonnell, Ford incurred heavy criticism, which he characteristically ignored. Ford seems delighted with Cristina but has disappointed her in one way: she is a physical-fitness devotee who grieves that Ford refuses...
...title for reasons other than his innately yawn-provoking characteristics. Whatever Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis is like as a private person is irrelevant; as a public personage she has become for many people a colossal bore. Jackie with hemline up. Jackie with hemline down. Jackie and Ari at Maxim's. Jackie shopping on the Via Gregoriana, the Rue du Faubourg St. Honoré, Madison Avenue. What could be more tiresome...
...leaders of the state are deaf, dumb and blind to them, Tommy has strong symbolic meaning. Yet its arrival at the Met, via the Fillmore East, several European opera houses and a record sale of $2,000,-000, is less a triumph for music than proof of the maxim that if you say something loud enough and long enough, people will believe it. Tommy is not an opera, of course, but an extended song cycle. It does have its moments: Pinball Wizard, for example, is explosive, driving, topnotch-hard rock. As a complete piece of musical theater, though, Tommy...
Since Khrushchev's one-man show came to an end, his successors have replaced his shoe-pounding, maxim-spouting ebullience with deliberateness that has long since crossed over the border into dullness. Conservative, guarded, suspicious, they exemplify a whole generation of bureaucratic middlemen. Writes British Kremlinologist Robert Conquest: "Vacillation, the attempt to combine contradictory drives, has been the pattern. The predominant motive seems to be a desire to avoid all change and reform in the hope that no crisis will spring up and that the contradictions within their society and economy will go away...