Word: sweetheart
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...famous 18th century satire against facile optimism and idealism, Voltaire had guileless young Candide's tutor, Dr. Pangloss, teach him that this is the best of all possible worlds. Chanting his faith, he and his tutor and his sweetheart Cunegonde are catapulted from one misfortune to the next, witnessing or enduring in 20 pages more crime, misery and calamity than exist in all Greek tragedy; in fact, Candide himself, "the mildest man in the world," is constantly killing people. At long last he is led from idealism to the commonsense of keeping strictly to his own concerns, of cultivating...
...calls them, closed ranks: WOR declared Shepherd "noncommercial" and sacked him, thus setting off a clangor of protest heard halfway across the land. Next day the chain gave him a week's reprieve. Then Shepherd tried a hard-sell on the first commercial product that popped into mind, Sweetheart Soap (which had never been a WOR sponsor). He was abruptly cut off the air and fired again. Announced WOR: "We cannot permit such poor judgment to continue uncontrolled." Just as abruptly, WOR ate its words. Sweetheart Soap rewarded Shepherd's free plug by offering to sponsor...
...treaty negotiations with Japanese officialdom until the girl was installed in his living quarters near the seacoast town of Shimoda. Long before she caught the consul's roving eye, Okichi was renowned for her beauty, her regal bearing and her torch songs. Her true love was her childhood sweetheart, a peasant carpenter named Tsuru-Matsu. but after Townsend Harris' ultimatum. Japanese officials lured Tsuru-Matsu away from Okichi with promises of making him a samurai. On the rebound from this desertion. Okichi agreed to go to lonely, kindly Consul Harris, and she fell in love with her middle...
...line poem in an open contest of the French Academy, took ninth place. At 16 he won the Academy of Toulouse's first prize, the Golden Lily. At 20 he published his first book of poems, Odes et Poesies Diverses, received a royal pension, and married his childhood sweetheart, Adele Foucher. By then he was one of the most mixed characters that ever walked the earth-a tempestuous rebel, a lover of kings, a bourgeois who could account for every sou he spent, a fanatical moralist, an insatiable sensualist. He came virgin to his marriage and apparently never strayed...
...Dartmouth, and Wise Acres no nearer the boards, Chick and Nickie watch the hidden land mines of life blowing up all around them. Having told himself, "I must under no condition marry this girl," Chick does marry his beautiful but dumb childhood sweetheart, Crystal. What is more, babies follow. Chick's father-in-law, who runs the advice column for the local paper, gets him a job writing Pepigrams ("All work and no play make Jack"). And then the old boy dies "on third" of a heart attack during a charity softball game, and Chick inherits the advice column...