Word: precious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...agency that later became B.B.D. & O., helped ensure its success with such snappy, to-the-point pitches as the one he wrote for G.E.: "Any woman who is doing any household task that a little electric motor can do is working for 3? an hour. Human life is too precious to be sold at the price of 3? an hour...
...hope of settling that precious state, and defining his position in it, that the hippie uses drugs-first for kicks and then sometimes as a kind of sacrament. Anti-intellectual, distrustful of logic, and resentful of the American educational process, the hippie drops out -tentatively at first-in search of another, more satisfying world...
Near the play's conclusion, Theseus states, "The lunatic, the lover, and the poet/ Are of imagination all compact." In the current version, there's plenty of lunacy, plenty of love, but precious little poetry. For this Cyril Ritchard must be held largely responsible. He should have faced up to the fact that his attempt to do almost everything himself was, like his own anatomy, characterized by an inability to see his own Bottom
Near the play's conclusion, Theseus states, "The lunatic, the lover, and the poet/ Are of imagination all compact." In the current version, there's plenty of lunacy, plenty of love, but precious little poetry. For this Cyril Ritchard must be held largely responsible. He should have faced up to the fact that his attempt to do almost everything himself was, like his own anatomy, characterized by an inability to see his own Bottom
...young artists in Russia today are gluing together unrealistic collages, op artists are opting for eye-twisting geometry, and there is even a group of painters in their 30s and 40s who throw together unsocialist images just because they feel like it. The Western world sees precious little of their work, for the Moscow Union of Soviet Artists is dominated by middle-aged academicians who learned their trade in the heyday of Stalinist realism. Their ponderous paeans to Lenin and heroic bobbin tenders go into official displays such as the Venice Biennale and Expo 67. Only an occasional private exhibition...