Word: remarkable
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
This observation was made by a Congressman opposed to a plan to open up the flatlands of Alaska's Kenai Moose Range for oil prospecting, an activity that would surely drive the moose into nearby mountains. The remark would not be very important except that it was aimed at Alaska Governor Walter Hickel, 49, who tried last summer to open the oil-rich range to the oil industry. This week Hickel, who is Richard Nixon's nominee for Secretary of the Interior, comes in for a barrage of questions when he appears for confirmation hearings before the Senate...
...Shula, Baltimore head coach, had said, "If we lose this game, the whole year is ruined." In view of the results, this remark is pitifully sad, but humanists were probably pleased. This great game may mark the beginning of the revolution of the underdog...
...interpreted as self-aggrandizement. When two young Manhattan career girls started Help Organize People Early and sent out thousands of Ted-boosting buttons, he disowned their effort. Still, he has not repudiated family tradition-and apparently cannot. It is hard under the circumstances to forget J.F.K.'s remark, delivered somewhat humorously: "I came into politics in my brother Joe's place. If anything happens to me, Bobby will take my place, and if Bobby goes, we have Teddy coming along...
...them are in the Green Berets, some are in the ghettoes, some are corporation presidents, some have positions in university administrations, some are drug addicts and murderers, and some are probably high up in the Nixon administration. I think the most favorable thing that could be said about that remark of Dean Ford's is that it is brutally snobbish...
...perorations, Kazantzakis' widow points out that her husband has been compared with Victor Hugo, adding with feminine fondness, "He is closer to Homer." The remark is not quite as outrageous as it sounds. Kazantzakis' 33,333-line poem, also called The Odyssey, is a 20th century epic in which a contemporary Ulysses savors the world's sunny delights while heading inexorably for a polar night of the spirit. In the letters, however, Kazantzakis settles for a shrewder, certainly earthier judgment of himself. "I am not a Romantic in revolt," he wrote, "nor a mystic scorning life...