Word: passel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...demands that Britain shrug off its reluctance and take the plunge before the mold of European unity hardens with Britain outside. "Time is not working for us," cried the influential Lord Gladwyn,* urging British membership in the Common Market. "The great thing is to get negotiations started now!" A passel of influential British editorialists are nudging the government to take action...
This year 123 sponsors put up a formidable candidate: protean Poet-Novelist Robert Graves, who lives on Majorca with his family, two poodles, a passel of cats and a donkey. He promised to lecture "about poetry" because "at universities they don't know anything about it." Kingmaker Starkie got herself nominated, and Rival Gardner quickly followed suit. Oxonian purists then went to the desperate length of putting up Cambridge University's frosty Critic F. R. Leavis, the scholarly exponent of Novelist D. H. Lawrence...
Stopping off in Accra for a few hours talk with Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah-whose lordly behavior makes a strong appeal to nationalist leaders like Lumumba -he flew on to London. A passel of Fascist-minded Mosleyites picketed the Ritz Hotel where Lumumba stopped, and Ghana's High Commissioner in Britain, Sir Edward Asafu-Adjaye, was knocked down by two of the Mosleyites, whose slogan is "Keep Britain White!" Unscathed, as usual, Patrice Lumumba reached New York's Idlewild airport this week. Speaking to a dawn patrol of newsmen, Lumumba said softly that peace in Congo...
...shrewdest and best-liked admen ever to stroll Madison Avenue, had built BBDO from a smalltime outfit postwar into fourth place in the industry before he was forced to retire from active leadership after a stroke. No sooner had Brower taken over than he faced a passel of trouble. Revlon, Inc. pulled out its $7,000,000 account. Then, to avoid trouble with its $17 million American Tobacco account, BBDO resigned its $1,500,000 account with Reader's Digest, after an unfavorable cigarette article appeared. "Being an intellectual uninterested in money," quips Brower, "I resigned the one that...
...Sausage Machine. The chief character in Tiger is, of course, Author King. He is occasionally graced with a valid in sight, but it is his hates that King truly prizes, and he has collected an awesome passel of them. He loathes beatniks ("clinical psychopaths, overt pansies or fulltime dope fiends") and millionaires. He detests TIME, LIFE (where he was once an associate editor) and FORTUNE, closely followed by The New Yorker ("frequently stinks up the neighborhood") and Look. Art critics are "rapacious vermin," and modern art is in a "putrescent coma." The theater world is full of "exhibitionistic freaks...