Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...psychologically convincing. Like most writers, poor Richard may have been an edgy, self-absorbed husband, but two people who live together for any length of time read each other, without needing the assurance of posthumous journals. Jean Kerr knows this and says as much when she has a character remark that the present generation thinks love "isn't real unless we have a fever...
Johns's choice of Ballantine ale cans came from an offhand remark by Abstract Expressionist Willem de Kooning to Johns's dealer, Leo Castelli: "Give that s.o.b. two beer cans and he could sell them." Johns proved he could (price: $1,000). Johns has also made art out of neon lettering, chairs, paint brushes and cast light bulbs in bronze...
Moliere, Too. What gnawed most at her ego was a reviewer's remark that her stage manner would make an angel swoon, but her words would make a monkey blush. Devoting most of her last four decades to getting on the side of the angels, she scoured libraries and chateaux to add Crusaders' lays and a centuries-old Vie du Christ cycle to her repertory, which she performed on academic platforms ranging from the University of Vienna to Bryn Mawr...
Hubert Humphrey once characterized the wise Senator as "one who reads the New Republic frequently and takes its advice not at all." The "N.R." celebrates its 50th anniversary this month, and it seems a good time to ask why Humphrey's remark rings so true. Though carefully read, widely respected, and perhaps even Established, the New Republic has never really been influential...
...place alongside those forgotten orators who reminded us that The future lies ahead,' and that The boys of today will be the men of tomorrow.' " ∙The Philadelphia Bulletin detected a new earnestness of rhetoric in the campaigns last week: "Until Election Day, Voltaire's famous remark is amended to read, T will defend to the death your right to say what you have just said, but if you say it again, I'll poke you one in the kisser...