Word: unkept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...excessive" (meaning horizontal and unconscious), parades at intermission. She listens with equal stolidity to Scheherezade and Mahler's Sixth Symphony, gazes transfixed at the flashing brass, and probably harbors an unbreakable, unreflective, reactionary, insensate detestation of all "modern music" which neither celebrates horses and streams, nor revels in unkept legions of defeaning brass. Henry James exquisitely captures this mood of pasteurized voraciousness...
DYLAN. Alec Guinness as Dylan Thomas during his U.S. reading tours keeps up a marathon dance of death, pacing it with poetry, word plays, promises-unkept-and an inner pain that even vast quantities of liquor cannot kill...
DYLAN. Alec Guinness as Dylan Thomas during his U.S. reading tours keeps up a marathon dance of death, pacing it with poetry, word plays, promises-unkept-and an inner pain that liquor cannot kill...
...Unkept Promise. As a member of the Senate's inner sanctum, Bridges had a strong sense of loyalty to his colleagues, regardless of party or politics. He tried hard to save Joe McCarthy from the Senate's censure, and might have succeeded had not McCarthy made a witless remark about the panel of Senators investigating him being the "unwitting handmaiden" of Communism. When asked to campaign against Democrat Scott Lucas in Illinois in 1950, Bridges was furious. "Scott Lucas refused to come to New Hampshire in 1948 and campaign against me," he sputtered. "I'll never...
...over the island, Cubans bracketed Havana with little acts of defiance. ¶At Corralillo, 100 miles eastward, on Cuba's north coast, farmers fed up with Castro's unkept promises, rose and fought his militia for two days...