Word: nyet
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...presidents have we had whose name began with R. Never have we had one whose name begins with N. Think of n: negative, nothing, negligent, nebulous, No, nein, nyet...
...patterned after the one used by TV Agent Maxwell Smart. When a patron dials the proper digits, the rear wall of the booth slips open onto stairs leading to a secret back door. So far, fearing that bookies might copy the device, the fathers have said nyet...
...Johnson Administration had no realistic expectations of overcoming this year ingrained congressional opposition to a major bill that appears to aid Communism. It had hoped that at least hearings would be held, so that in a year or two even Wilbur Mills might realize the unwisdom of forever saying nyet to the likes of Nicolae, and vice versa...
...reader knows-most of the fools, fops, frauds, pacifists, pederasts, know-nothings and impotents who people the play, have been merely the fantasies of Waltz's buzzing brain. This whole monstrous world, suggests Nabokov, is just a madman's dream. Does Waltz speak for Nabokov? Nabokov says nyet. Yet by refusing to establish any objective grounding, Nabokov reduces his cloud-capped tower of fantasy to a dusty heap of speculation. The reader is left to realize that where there is no possible answer, there can have been no genuine question...
Founded in 1951, the Moscow Philharmonic is Russia's youngest major orchestra. Under the tutelage of Kondrashin, now 51, the Philharmonic specializes in the early classics, contemporary Soviet composers and what the Russians call modern music: Hindemith, Poulenc, Mahler. As for Schoenberg and his successors, Kondrashin says flatly: "Nyet! This is not music. This is noise." He drills his young (average age: 35) musicians four to six hours a day. He admires U.S. orchestras for their happy blend of "German discipline and a French kind of freedom." But as a loyal Communist, he has decried their artistic and financial...