Word: needlessness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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LAST fall the Boston Globe backed Kevin White in the mayoralty race against Louise Day Hicks. This was the first time the Globe had supported a political candidate since it backed William Jennings Bryan in 1896. Needless to say, the Globe'sabandonment of its 72-year policy of neutrality created some consternation in the Hicks camp. "I'm told Louise Hicks blames the Globefor her defeat," comments Charlie Whipple, head of the Globe'seditorial staff. He adds gravely, "I find that comforting...
...ideas-his own or other people's. But he tried, and made it. M:l won four Emmys last year, and now in its second season it ranks as a solid favorite in the Sunday evening slot formerly occupied by Candid Camera and What's My Line? Needless to say, Lucille Ball is disavowing nothing...
...devoted more effort than to opposing the war. But I would be profoundly and also greatly embarrassed were anyone to take my remarks at Radcliffe as an invitation to any form of opposition to the participants of individual Faculty members, on a public or confidential basis, in government activities. Needless to say, none of this impairs in any way my promise at the Radcliffe meeting to work with concerned Faculty members and students to devise other effective, legitimate and non-violent forms of protest. John Kenneth Galbraith Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics
...your school--University of Arizona--some of your friends, will enter the advertising profession. Most will become the former; few, I hope, will be interested in unethical advertising practices, or make needless use of sex symbolism in their work...
...retrospect, Picasso's reluctance to have his sculpture judged on a par with his painting seems a needless reticence. For, although he has treated sculpture as something he did with his left hand, the present exhibition proves that his left hand knew quite well what the right hand drew, and on occasion did it better. Even the simplest piece-a hawk's head snipped from a piece of sheet iron-needs no signature. The work is plainly Picasso...