Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even theatergoing children are now sophisticated enough to understand Lerner's remark, which, in his case, was made only in jest. For non-theatergoing children, ice can be defined as Broadway's term for the great sums of money made by various theater employees through the scalping of tickets. Over the past winter and spring, following investigations by New York State Attorney General Louis J. Lefkowitz, the term has been all over the theatrical pages of newspapers, and the corruption growing out of Broadway abuses has finally been illuminated...
...aggressiveness led him into making a charge that he later regretted. Discussing Goldwater's refusal to meet him in a face-to-face television debate, Scranton said: "I think this indicates an apparent lack of courage to face people." Later, in Denver, Scranton apologized, said his remark had been "ill-advised." "I know Goldwater has personal courage," he explained. "No one denies that. But since the New Hampshire primary, he has been guarded and hemmed in by the politicians around him lest he express his personal views...
...SOCIAL SECURITY. In New Hampshire, Goldwater was asked if he favored continuing or altering the social security system. Replied he: "I would like to suggest one change, that social security be voluntary." Almost everyone agrees that a voluntary social security system would be actuarially unsound, and Goldwater's remark was certainly a factor in his New Hampshire loss. But in California a fortnight ago, he said flatly that he does not advocate making the system voluntary, and insisted that "anyone who says I am against social security lies...
Like a Chanel Gown. Editor Lazareff runs her magazine with the graceful enthusiasm of a woman who wears command like a Chanel gown. Visitors to Elle's offices-among them delegations regularly sent over by the French Foreign Ministry's section on cultural affairs-frequently remark that all the girls seem to be in uniform. And in a way they are. If Madame shows up one morning in a navy suit, next day navy suits will bloom all over the staff...
...profoundly shocked shortly before his death in 1910 to hear Lloyd George, as Chancellor of the Exchequer, quip that "a fully equipped Duke costs as much to keep up as two dreadnoughts" and was less easy to scrap. It was, Edward confided to a secretary, the most insidiously socialistic remark he had ever heard from a Minister of the King...