Word: unkempt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though Marx and Lenin both wore beards-as do current Comrades Ho Chi Minh, Fidel Castro and Walter Ulbricht-beards have long been in disfavor throughout much of the Communist world. The wholly unkempt look is considered antisocial and a sign of Western decadence. Alarmed by the growing number of beards appearing on students and intellectuals, Rumania has now earned the distinction of being the first Communist state to take official action against the menace. With the invincible Communist lack of humor that no amount of economic liberalization can cure, the Rumanian government has decreed that beards may henceforth...
West Germany's Horst Janssen is an unkempt, 200-lb. colossus who, when not actually at his drawing board, sprawls on his unmade bed, clad in boots and blue jeans, redolent of cheap schnapps, cursing the world and especially its art critics. Yet for all his fulminations, both fame and money seem to be irresistibly coming Janssen...
...pair recently turned out a book, Lyndon B. Johnson: The Exercise of Power (the New American Library; $7.95), a highly detailed account of the President's ceaseless political maneuvering. Upset at the exposure he gets, Johnson dismisses Evans as "that Stacomb boy," says he can tell when the unkempt Novak is around because he can "smell" him. Still, the Evans-Novak style of reporting does not always make L.B.J. look bad. Like almost all the rest of the press, they took the President to task for the offhand manner in which he announced the appointment of Nicholas deB. Katzenbach...
...Cynthia Ozick's ill-fed, unkempt, rumpled and generally undusted husband, I deny your characterization of her-in your otherwise shining review of Trust [Aug. 12]-as a "housewife." That, God knows...
...Lindsay asked his help on a rewrite of Cole Porter's Anything Goes. "We don't complement, we supplement each other," said Lindsay afterward, and the two went on to conceive twelve plays and musicals locked together in a room, the impeccable, reserved Lindsay pacing, the gentle, unkempt Grouse slumped over the typewriter, each one finishing the other's sentences...