Word: slipping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...history of art is to a certain extent one long series of rehabilitations. As styles change, men and periods slip into comparative obscurity, and a later age whisks them back into favor. So it has been to a large degree with the art of France in the 17th century-a century that for a long time seemed too staid and static for modern tastes. Since World War II, museums on both sides of the Atlantic have been fighting for the few surviving works of the 17th century master Georges de La Tour. Last summer, the Louvre put on the biggest...
Answer records are not new: the 1940s had Slipping Around and I'll Never Slip Around Again, and a novelty of 1931 was I Have to Laugh ("when I think how I danced with tears in my eyes over you"). They are a vogue now because of the success of Jim Reeves's He'll Have to Go and Jeanne Black's He'll Have to Stay, concerning a pair of lovers squabbling on the phone over an anonymous third party ("Should I hang up/ Or will you tell him/ He'll have...
...Gaulle's domestic opponents, left and right, exploded into protest. The French Communist Party, now playing the rebels' game, ordered its supporters to vote no in the referendum. In Spain General Raoul Salan and red-bearded Pierre Lagaillarde fumed in frustration; they had planned to slip into Algeria and rouse the ultras against De Gaulle. But French diplomatic pressure on Spain frustrated them instead. Admitted Lagaillarde last week, "Yes, I tried to board ship to get back to Algeria. So did Salan. We were stopped by the Spanish police...
When Alexander Woollcott asked to see the collection, Barnes sent him a nasty note signed with the name of his dog (which was, impressively enough, Fidèle de Port-Manech). Walter P. Chrysler Jr. got a "rejection slip" signed by a fictitious secretary named Kelly. Though the young James Johnson Sweeney managed to make the grade, the Modern Museum's Alfred Barr Jr. was rudely rebuffed by Barnes, and Lloyd Goodrich of the Whitney Museum never got in at all. Members of the faculty of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts were banned as being "habitually...
...Toast, No Butter. Now and then, of course. Dr. Lenard suffers a slip of the stylus. Forgivably enough, he fumbles a number of Milne's choicer puns ("ambush" as a bush, "issue" as a sneeze), and the great gag about Piglet's grandfather. Trespassers W. somehow just lies there in Latin. Furthermore, panistostatus cum butyro, though verbally correct, makes no sense at all in the Roman context as a translation of "buttered toast." According to Dr. Frederick L. Santee, a leading U.S. Latinist, the Romans had no toast and no word for it, and though they...