Word: meaningfulness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
His facility at digesting official dossiers became legendary and led to his own decision-making shorthand style. "Vu" meant seen but waiting for better arguments. "Soit" meant so be it, but not the best solution. "Oui" meant O.K., but he still had reservations. Only the best dossiers got a "D...
She looked more like a reject from the cast of Oliver! than the star of Sweet Charity, but Shirley MacLaine insisted that "there is more to life than worrying about clothes." In London briefly to promote Charity, Shirley offered a few more upbeat views that roundly belied her traditional image...
On the handful of occasions when you and I meet not so many years ago, you seemed a well-meaning man, but altogether puzzled and remote when confronted with actual undergraduate flesh. It's now evident that you've completely lost touch with the changing spirit and needs of the...
BY NEW, however, all that has changed. Liberated chicks began slipping the word into conversations during this past decade but we didn't really mind, because it was still private and full of meaning. When good novels could no longer sell without it well, that was all right, too; it...
But recently "fuck" has been thrown around publicly in all kinds of ways, and it has suffered accordingly. As Eldridge Cleaver and many others, including lots of young girls, openly exhorted us to fuck such undesirables as Reagan, Daley, and the Chicago police, the word began to lose both its...