Word: priceless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Died. Paulo Picasso, 54, only legitimate child of Pablo Picasso; of blood poisoning; in a Paris hospital. Joint heir with Picasso's widow, Jacqueline, to the artist's priceless collection of paintings, "Paulo" was unsuccessful in denying the claims of his father's three illegitimate children to a share in the estate. Young Picasso lived wanly in the massive shadow of his father, helping out occasionally as handyman and chauffeur. His own son, Pablito, died in agony three months after drinking bleaching fluid because he was barred from his grandfather's villa when the artist died...
...1960s, Lipset argues, radicals had finally learned that "campaigns against intangible enemies like racism and war might have their place, but supporters could be won only by attacking nearby visible enemies on specific issues...a target in Cambridge was priceless." During the year of the Strike. Lipset writers, SDS had decided that in order to top its feats the year before at Columbia it would have to act at Harvard in a way "deliberately designed to provoke authority to be repressive." The forcible occupation of University Hall was the tactic decided upon, and the Pusey administration , Lipset suggests, responded just...
...energy, because New Jersey is heavily dependent on imported oil and has suffered severe consequences as a result. But New Jersey will not sit by silently as the federal bureaucracy rushes headlong into a program that will benefit the oil companies at the expense of a state's priceless Atlantic coastal beaches and tourist industry...
...husband-because he likes to copulate too much, she tells him later-and leads a miserable life, moving from one lover to another, looking freakier and acting freakier. The tumor, presumably, is the final punishment for her infidelity and desertion, and allows her wronged husband the priceless opportunity to be magnanimous, to forgive and to cherish. Her death gives him poignant pause, but it is never forcefully indicated that it must have been much rougher...
...clue, you could count on the rest of us catching grief. To dramatize such things, Mr. Tryon scheduled a hurricane, a flood and the Dutch elm disease. Not to mention yearly blizzards of cliches. But the wisdom that Lady revealed to Woody strikes some people as priceless. "Man is made to suffer, they say," she once opined. On another of many "memorable" occasions, she tossed off one of her best remarks: "People are people wherever you go." No, they don't make 'em like Lady any more...