Word: properity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seems to me that these are the significant issues in evaluating the McNamara incident. Beyond these abstract considerations, there is a definite incongruity in insisting on proper decorum when the underlying question is of attitudes toward a vicious war, or of being concerned with not embarrassing a guest when the questions he raises concern the fundamental nature of our society. NORM DIAMOND Teaching Fellow in Government
...Three cheers for the current generation of war correspondents! It's about time someone put war, with all its viciousness and human suffering, in proper perspective...
...stories is an example. Ustinov sometimes draws his characters so broadly that they are not entirely believable on the printed page. In Dreams of Papua, a tale of high policymaking in Washington, there is a good deal of wry satire, but it deteriorates into dispirited burlesque, though given the proper setting and makeup, Ustinov could probably make something hilariously funny...
...Brooklyn, a few blocks from the spot where Barnum and Bailey's pitched tent when they made a special stop in that borough years ago. FDR Jr. pulled over on Eastern Parkway in front of a brightly lit cafeteria. Facing the building he looked out at Crown Heights proper, an old neighborhood of Italians and orthodox Jews. Behind him was Bedford-Stuyvesant, the most salvageable of the city's Negro slums. Looking toward the slum he could see sheets of paper propelled higgly-piggly by the cold wind until the trash caught in one of the low, rusted fences...
...grandson was scandalized. So he brought suit in a Paris court to have his ancestor's name deleted from the title, and Judge Max Leboulanger quickly agreed. "Damaging to the family's good name," ruled the magistrate. So, thanks to the Comte Xavier de Sade, an eminently proper gentleman farmer from Condé-en-Brie, the name of his peculiar forebear, the Marquis de Sade, was ordered removed from the billboards advertising the Paris production of Marat Sade. Protested Producer Tony Azzi: "Real sadism...