Word: maxime
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Truth, Not Profit. Lubalin is not the only one who has donated his talent to the New Leader. Following the maxim of the late executive editor Samuel M. ("Sol") Levitas, "Don't expect to profit from the truth," Kolatch tries to pay younger contributors $25 to $50 an article, but he can still count on snagging the likes of exiled Spanish Philosopher Salvador de Madariaga, Economist Adolf A. Berle and Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr for nothing...
...FRENCH PAVILION will consist mainly of three buildings looking like a children's game in their pure geometrical forms: a rectangle housing Maxim's restaurant, an immense egg-shaped ellipsoid (the largest structural ellipse ever built), which will shelter a 1,500-seat theater for the Folies-Bergére, and a pyramid in which visitors will view "The Treasures of Versailles," a huge collection of paintings and art objects...
...suppose that one must concede to Mr. John Barton the right to concoct an evening of 35 monarchal snippets from 1000 years of English history (he calls them "an entertainment by and about the Kings and Queens of England,...men and women like you and me.") Fortunately, the maxim does not require us (you and me, that is to say) to look at Mr. Barton and his fellows as they debase the monarchs to make them palatable to a democratic audience by smirking, giggling, and vulgarly overacting...
...Maxim Karolik, 69, the opera tenor from Petrograd who emigrated to the U.S., married a proper Bostonian millionairess and became the most conspicuous collector of 19th century American art, divides most of his time these days between his late wife's summer mansion in Newport and the Ritz in Boston. At the Ritz he usually lunches alone, but every few bites he springs across the room to greet in heavily accented English some acquaintance at another table. In Newport his batonlike index finger waves to the accompaniment of an avalanche of talk, which is usually about Maxim Karolik...
Critics of two cultures have pronounced Kafka's novels both "pre-fascist" and "proto-Communist" Freudians have found in them classical symptoms of angst; theologians have seen a cold and brilliant statement of Kierkegaard's "either/or" maxim and Karl Earth's "theology of crisis.'' And like Freud's, his name has become an easy tag, employed by essayists and parlor annotators: Kafkaesque now suggests the small man confronted by a high and nameless menace, the humble man, anxious to cause no trouble, who finds that his heart has withered, the defeated man who wanders...