Word: wined
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...missed it. Elvira Madigan is not a story about two lovers who reject society and then die for their own love. It is a story of two lovers, loving ideally in a perfect setting, who find that their kind of love--the butterflies and the daisies and the wine and cheese--is not enough...
Their love is not apocalyptic. It floats on and on in the yellow light of ether. And what is hard reality? White tablecoths with blue and red anemones. Toes curling over a tightrope. Sharp silver wine in a wine glass...
Still later that Ash Wednesday night, Rockefeller was host at a private dinner for New York Republican legislators. Over fish and French white wine, he heard more warnings about the dangers of standing pat. By way of response, he said: "I have been accused of dividing the party once [in 1964]. I don't want that ever thrown in my face again." And he again conceded his willingness to be drafted. "But there's a question of how you define a draft," he told his fellow New Yorkers. "I'm going to be thinking about that...
...report, compiled by State Department Inspector General J. K. Mansfield, told of an argosy of luxuries and trivia bestowed under AID financing: a $2,111 car for the Japanese embassy in Santo Domingo, a stereophonic hi-fi system for the El Salvador embassy, wine glasses and $10,000 worth of pastel-colored bidets for the Dominican Republic...
...from physical attack by a female crystallographer when he challenged her theories; the abrasive personality of talented Co-worker Crick; an incredible high school-level error by brilliant Chemist Linus Pauling that temporarily threw him off course, enabling Watson and Crick to win the DNA race; the distraction of wine and popsies at Cambridge University, where much of the great work was carried out. Burdened by the complex details of DNA research, Double Helix does not quite close the gap between C. P. Snow's "two cultures," but certainly narrows...