Word: sincerest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Like a Poster. Claiming that the Tories' "modernization" plans for new roads, schools and housing were borrowed from Labor, Wilson said tartly: "Imitation is the sincerest form of political desperation." Why, he continued, "have we heard so little about modernization in the past twelve years? I never undervalue the power of repentance, but it has taken a very long time...
...sales zoomed, sponsors were competing for programs, and by the fall of 1960, ABC was a contender for the title of the most popular U.S. network. Since imitation is the sincerest form of television, CBS and NBC hastened to adapt their programming to the ABC formula...
...sincerest gratitude for your handling of my book What Ivan Knows That Johnny Doesn't in the Education section of the Nov. 17 issue. I feel that TIME has performed a very valuable service in calling nationwide attention to serious problems in the quality of American education by the comments not only on my book but upon the book Tomorrow's Illiterates as well. Altogether the piece was in the very best TIME tradition...
Parody is the sincerest form of literary flattery and one of the highest forms of criticism. It must duel with the creator on his own ground, and when successful, is calculated to make the Cyrano de Berge-racs of the arts feel that it is not just their noses but their swords that are comic. The true parodist must do more than spoof superficial oddities and quirks of style; he must reach the deeper eccentricities of attitude, summon the author's familiar spirit and transform it into a Halloween mask...