Word: spoiling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nobody knows for certain when or why the confetti battle first appeared. It's existence, however, was a fact, taken as such, termed traditional, and permitted to pass unquestioned. After all, throwing confetti was fun, so why spoil it by asking absurd questions...
Will success spoil Nikita Khrushchev...
...working on an analysis of Beethoven's String Quartet, Opus 95. Says he: "Most of what passes for musical criticism today is sheer bunk; I think functional analysis will bring about the twilight of the twaddle." He is not disturbed by the thought that it might also spoil the market for the written criticism with which he still partly supports himself. "The critic's job," says Critic Keller, "is to make himself unnecessary...
Djellabah & Degree. Sidi Mohammed ben Youssef did not let the bad news spoil his trip. Apart from official business -including a hurried conference with his aides on the sudden flare of border battles between Moroccan irregulars and Spanish forces (see FOREIGN NEWS)-and ceremonial dinners, luncheons and receptions, the King found dramatic ways to point up his country's ties with the U.S. Stopping off at A.F.L.-C.I.O. headquarters for a sip of orange juice and a chat with President George Meany, he recalled that the A.F.L. and C.I.O. had helped to organize trade unions in Morocco. Meeting...
Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? Frank Tashlin's spoof of Manhattan's television-advertising industry; with Tony Randall as Rock. Jayne Mansfield as herself (TiME...