Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...crux of the Western human condition lies in what the great Indian Chief Drowning Bear said in a penetratingly revealing remark about the Bible: "It seems to be a very good book. Strange that the white people are not better, after having had it so long...
...marginalia: "Sit down in our barber chair and enjoy the last living 5? shoeshine, done with real champagne." Minneapolis' Cork & Fork follows each listing with an entry like "Lionel Barrymore, on one of his many visits to the Cork & Fork before it was opened, was once heard to remark, in his off-the-cuff style of humor: 'Say, this is good.' " And the menu of San Francisco's Señor Pico describes one bestseller (beef stew) with this line: "It's a real son of a bitch...
...captain-elect felt that the first several games this year gave him a great deal of needed confidence and helped him feel looser and play better each week thereafter. His improvement caused coach Tom Stephenson to remark. "John was an unknown quantity at the beginning of the year, but now he's one of the top defensive ends in the league...
...rather surprised at the concluding remark of "The Jeering Section": "The song the students chose was Simon and Garfunkel's The Sounds of Silence, a theme that has hardly marked the 1968 campaign." If the writer had been familiar with the words of the song, I'm sure he would agree that it truly was the theme of the 1968 campaign: And in the naked light I saw, ten thousand people, maybe more,/People talking without speaking, people hearing without listening . . . The sounds of silence...
...will probably be remembered as one of the most flawed major playwrights in history. Aiming for greatness, he often achieved only length. When he tries to make his characters Greek-tragic, they appear just plain accident-prone. The notoriously awkward prose of The Iceman Cometh inspired Mary McCarthy to remark: "You cannot write a Platonic dialogue in the style of Casey...