Word: tempest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week's end, the thousands of tempest-tossed citizens could only hope against hope that this was the end of it all, that new-brewing storms in the Pacific would spend themselves before reaching the West Coast...
...most important, what is gained by saying one painting is "the best"? Asger Jorn, Denmark's painter of livid, vivid abstraction, caused a bit of a tempest this year by refusing to accept a proffered Guggenheim award. "I get my money by selling paintings," he said, "and I think it is more healthy than by getting prizes. If you establish that one artist is better than another one, it is a question of convention-and you have to have a common measure, whereas the whole value of art is exactly that common measure doesn't exist...
...autos in the last quarter, General Motors lifted its already commanding share of the market half a point to 54.5%. G.M. rose chiefly on the sales of its big, restyled Buicks, Pontiacs and Oldsmobiles. Also aiding G.M.'s rise were its new intermediates, the Pontiac Tempest and the Oldsmobile F-85, which were last year's compacts but have been made larger and more luxurious for 1964. Chevrolet's handsome new intermediate, the Chevelle, has quickly carved out its niche in the market, but it seems to have done so at the expense of its smaller brothers...
...movie-credit-like cover, is "an Irreverent Compendium of American Quotable Notables edited by Cleveland Amory with Earl Blackwell." Ringmaster Amory, who killed society, has now set about celebrities, and when in doubt on what to say, he has dropped back and punned. Marlon Brando is "the all-time tempest in a T-shirt." Tommy Manville is "an altar-ego." Eva Gabor is "strictly from Hungary." Alfred Hitchcock is the "star of staged screams and television." And Elizabeth Taylor is "a million-dollar crybaby in a wive-and-men spent store." Whew. That took four years to write...
...that the tempest has come, and largely gone, two dangers must be avoided. First, no attempt should be made to exploit the general excitement as a lever, either to sway the Faculty which retains final control, or to stimulate custodial employees in the Houses to invade students' privacy. The inevitable barrage of letters from University alumni and donors should be allowed to coerce...