Word: ruined
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...these days of feature-oriented newspapers and vitamin-supplement television, the magazine industry is deathly sick. Only T.V. Guide and Playboy are thriving; Coronet has just gone the way of Collier's,and the Post is en route to financial ruin...
Vigorous & Loyal. Extreme old age, however, had no effect on Hearst's extreme jealousy. As they always had, his eyes followed Marion wherever she moved; her leading men were afraid to enter wholeheartedly into on-camera kisses, since Hearst's newspapers had ruined other men's careers for less cause. When Hearst's own empire was facing ruin in the Depression '30s, Marion lent Hearst back $1,000,000, won his lifetime gratitude. Still in her vigorous 40s when Hearst was in his 80s, Marion remained loyal until Hearst died, reading to him, nursing...
Beckett's message must be picked up in fragments, like shards around a ruin. He is an elegiac host at civilization's wake, taking for his text Cyril Connolly's "It is closing time in the gardens of the West. From now on an artist will be judged only by the resonance of his solitude or the quality of his despair." The quality of Beckett's despair assays high; it is the quantity that is suspect. There is so much of it, and most of it is unearned. His characters are not scarred by life...
...Premier and his associates was based on the Turkish penal code, which can prescribe death for those who "attempt by force to change, replace or abrogate the Constitution." There is no doubt that by vast, showy projects and wild fiscal extravagance, Menderes had brought Turkey close to ruin, and consistently tried to hide the fact by severe press censorship and high-handed rule. But many Turks wondered whether the death penalty was justified for this offense and for the grab bag of other charges raised against Menderes and his fellow defendants in court. Among the charges: inciting anti-Greek riots...
...hesitation, I believe one could justify restricting capacity of a fallout shelter because of limited supplies, air, room and the like. But the method of restriction would have to be moral-namely, barring the entrance, and nonuse of violent means unless intrusion itself were threatened which would thereby ruin the shelter...