Word: maxime
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...family now stands at an awesome 60% of its after-tax income for one year. In a generation, most of the facts and beliefs about debt have profoundly changed. Virtually dead is the Puritan ethic that condemned spending beyond one's immediate earnings and followed Emerson's maxim...
STORMY PETREL: THE LIFE AND WORK OF MAXIM GORKY by Dan Levin. 329 pages. Appleton-Century...
...Maxim Gorky's life was the irresistible legend: unschooled Volga boatman turned great writer, angry appellant for Red Revolution, friend of Tolstoy and Lenin, humanist who loathed repression, diver to The Lower Depths and the grim, gritty world of his Childhood. In fact, judging from this careful exhumation of the man by Dan Levin, sometime novelist and lifelong Gorkyite, Gorky was at once a less noble and more tragic figure than his legend suggests...
...sort of party that Washington has come to expect of Ambassador and Mme. Hervé Alphand. For the Opera Ball, the capital's top social event of the season, the French embassy garden was transformed into a tented version of Maxim's in Paris. Party regulars (Vice President Humphrey, Lynda Bird) and regular partygoers (Alice Roosevelt Longworth, Vogue Editor Diana Vreeland, Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart) were all there, along with a clambake of Kennedys (Bobby, Ethel, Ted, Eunice and Sargent Shriver), a détente of diplomats, and a ponderosity of pundits. The music, fittingly enough...
...Maxim number three, and the most important, is that the major factor in Derby handicapping is the distance. A mile and a quarter is a gruelling route, and at this time of year there have been no major races for three-year olds at this distance. One must search to find a horse who can travel ten furlongs without suffering a coronary along...