Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...normal adult male shares Dee-ann Vreeland's abhorrence of the full-blown female bosom. Diamond Jim Brady's remark (about diamonds) may be paraphrased with relevance: "I notice them that has 'em, wears...
...learn very little from such declamations as "How can a very small and insignificant soul break from a creed, which, if it does nothing else, at least proclaims consistently and vehemently and unwaveringly that it alone possess the one complete truth in the universe? I am torn." Montaigne's remark that "We must reserve a back shop all our own, entirely free, in which to establish out real liberty and out principal retreat and solitude" is good advice...
...evidence concerning the foreman's bias is met with a statement that his friend "must have misunderstood" his remark that the "guineas" "ought to hang anyway." The statement of the policemen to the effect that the foreman was prejudiced against Italians was ignored...
...remark, "Farming has little appeal for young men nowadays," made my blood boil. What's wrong with farming? Where else can you be your own boss without punching a time clock? And why do people insist on cracking those corn-fed jokes about the "dumb" farmer and his wife...
Typical is the story You and I. The guests at a dinner party are all in some sort of disguise. Or are they spies disguised as guests? Men the shape of heavyweight boxers are disguised as women. Who is who? Nobody will ever know. A chance remark about the difficulty of getting duck causes panic and consternation, since one of the guests, who has ears like headphones and eyes like a sniper's, is clearly the representative of the unmentionable absent reality-Big Brother. Somebody offers an explanation. Food distribution in the cities should not be underestimated. "Duck, chicken...