Word: succumbing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...among nations; for speculators, hoarders and industrial users, the price was freed to find its own level in the marketplace. To make the system work, the central banks agreed to buy no newly mined metal. They also agreed to sell no gold whatever to any country that might then succumb to the profitable temptation to unload official gold reserves in the free market, where the price has hovered around...
...premise--British actors performing a campy American Western--ceases to be funny about thirty seconds into the first act. The feeble gags swarm around such familiar territories as the human anatomy, drunks, queers, and race (Authors Ray Galton and Alan Simpson even succumb to having a whiteman tell an Indian, "You all look alike to me.") As you might expect, the script is littered with countless unfunny versions of Western cliches (e.g., "Seldom have I heard so many discouraging words...
...film develops, the workers succumb not through ideological but moral weakness: slogans aside, they hold bourgeois values. At the outset Carlos, cigarette dangling from his proletarian lip, tells his working class lover, "Someday I'll make it big...I want the cake, not just the crumbs." Twenty minutes later we see them both bedfellows of their bourgeois employers...
...films, you may succumb to sneaking suspicions that some of the advertised shots never appear. This may be deliberately false advertising, but more than likely the scenes in question--certain to be the most sordid in the films--fell beneath a censor's scissors...
There is no exit except to succumb to the flood of insanity. The book's real villain is the pointlessness of life, and in Paris literary circles this is a very fashionable villain indeed. Author Le Clézio, 27, frankly enjoys life himself-he is an ardent jazz and movie buff-but he is much too clever to let the fact seep into his books. If he had to choose a bedside volume, he says, it would be Alice in Wonderland. Perhaps Le Clézio should reread that work more closely. As Tweedledum remarked of Alice...