Word: wishfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...death-wish motif is not something infantile and slightly ridiculous. What other than the death of young lovers constitutes the theme of such literary works as Romeo and Juliet, Dumas' La Dame aux Camèlias, Maxwell Anderson's Winterset, and practically all of the most popular operas, notably Tristan und Isolde...
...extremely idiotic and senseless, but the hot rod and surfing songs represent a way of life to many teenagers. Most of the death-type songs teach us a lesson that all teen-agers should learn. Just because some of them are death ballads by no means indicates a wish to die by teenagers. They only teach us not to be foolish while getting thrills...
...that standard, the bells cannot have been ringing in Laos last week. "It's been a very rough spell," Unger said during one of his rare breaks. "It's not good enough to sit here and try to put out fires from day to day. I wish we had more time for constructive thinking for the long run." As he explained the current crisis: "The Pathet Lao attacks in the Plain of Jars represent a flagrant land grab. We don't intend to see the whole country gobbled...
...several worlds: Mr. and Mrs. Winston Guest, Actress Lauren Bacall, Mr. Kenneth (the hairdresser), Columnist Joseph Alsop, Publisher John Hay Whitney, Hollywood's Mike Romanoff, and Douglas Fairbanks Jr., who flew in from London to be one of 19 ushers. Said Paley when the affair was over: "I wish we had a wedding every week. What are we going to do next week...
Writing in the monthly American Church News, Canon du Bois admits that the President "is undoubtedly receiving Communion at Episcopal altars in good faith and in sincerity." Nonetheless, he argues that priests who have admitted non-Episcopalians to Communion make it difficult for the clergy, "who wish to maintain the church's law and discipline but who do not wish to make an issue of this at their altar rails...