Word: tactlessness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...scripts and intelligent directors. In her most distinguished films-notably, The Old Maid, The Letter, The Little Foxes, All About Eve-she played grueling, unsympathetic parts that most other actresses would shun. Today, living in California and Maine, Mother Goddam admits that she has been "uncompromising, peppery, untractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile and ofttimes disagreeable." In a line that only Bette Davis could deliver, on or off screen, she concludes: "I suppose I'm larger than life...
...1930s, Kreisler astonished the musical world-and embarrassed critics-by confessing that for years he had been palming off a whole series of his own compositions as the works of such classical composers as Vivaldi, Martini, Couperin, Dittersdorf, Pugnani. Explained Kreisler: "I found it inexpedient and tactless to repeat my name endlessly in the programs...
...Kennedy urged that every official in the Cabinet Room get a copy of the speech and study it. If some had already grasped Khrush's message, perhaps sooner than the President himself (who in early 1961 entertained some hopes of an accommodation with the U.S.S.R.), there was nobody tactless enough to bring that...
...Economic Stabilization. At war's end he fought successfully to keep controls on wages and prices in the name of an orderly transition to a peacetime economy; as a result, he amassed one army of bitter conservative enemies and another of happy liberal disciples. After one earnest but tactless term as Governor of Connecticut (1949-51), he was defeated for reelection, got a Truman appointment as Ambassador to India...
Finnish political parties said and did about Finland's ties to Moscow-and then released the speech. Having thus made Finland out to be almost a Kremlin satrapy, Khrushchev next praised Kekkonen as a friend of Russia with such tactless lavishness that even Kekkonen squirmed...