Word: punching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...many compulsive gamblers admit that their strongest drive is to lose, not win. The classic example of this self-destructive type was Dostoevsky, whose incentive to write was often to get money for gambling; when he had it, he would boast that he was going to give fate "a punch on the nose!" Fate, of course, always ducked. In Dostoevsky and Parricide, Freud suggested that for the writer fate represented the father figure from whom he was asking punishment...
...knew elegance of diction wasn't my long suit; it was having something to say and saying it with all the punch you could put into it," he remarked in 1925. As a founding member of Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn, now the nation's third largest advertising agency ($294.6 million in 1966 billings) after J. Walter Thompson and Young & Rubicam, he said his piece with punch for such corporations as U.S. Steel and General Electric. In the process, he set a Madison Avenue fashion for spare and peppy prose. For Forest Lawn cemetery, he invented the phrase FIRST...
John Devlin plays Antonio, the eponymous merchant, with a good deal of snarling, and puts plenty of punch into his diatribe against Shylock's "Jewish heart." At the end of the show, when all the plots have been straightened out and all the pairs of lovers hooked up, Kahn keeps Antonio alone on the stage after all the others have exited, and the merchant slowly tears in two the letter in his hand. We are not to have our package tied up with a blue-ribbon...
...Yard Punch in the Widener Quadrangle...
...Yard Punch in the Widener Quadrangle...