Word: worsted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Worst of the blazes was in Orange County, just south of Los Angeles. Feeding on sere brush, the flames romped through cordons thrown up by 1,400 firemen and raced toward the wealthy residential areas of Lemon Heights, Cowan Heights, Villa Park and Orange Park Acres. Hundreds of residents were routed; 52 buildings were destroyed, most of them houses-some costing...
Clifford Odets has become a watchword for what is worst in the theatre of the '30's. Waiting for Lefty conjures up visions of a cast storming an audience with cries of "Strike!" and Golden Boy suggests the apotheosis of sentimentalism--or else a bad musical with Sammy Davis Jr. No one thinks of Odets as a great dialogue writer, which he was, or as a creator of remarkably distinctive characters, which he was also. We think of him as a soapbox in possession of a typewriter...
...without even the dignity to cease trying to charm. The Negro revolution, once the very embodiment of our dignity and pride, has somehow fallen into the bonds of what the President has rightly called vulgar men, half educated in their utterances, and wholly sincere only in their destructiveness. Worst of all, the great dream of internationalism, the splendid succession of noble deeds and magnanimous gestures that marked the course of American foreign policy--or so we thought, and so surely we intended through the three decades just passed--has degenerated into the nightmare of Vietnam where alone and adamant...
...best lack all conviction, while the worst...
...known to the public as "Bloomsbury" and to itself as "the Memoir Club." They read their own memoirs to each other. It lasted for 36 years but of its members, only John Maynard Keynes seems to have had any great influence on the course of events. It was "the worst, full of passionate intensity," who, as Woolf sees it, overwhelmed the rational world of the Apostles and Bloomsbury. "Catholics, Communists, Rosicrucians and Adventists"-Woolf herds all passionate believers into one nasty pen. He never seems to have asked himself whether it is rational to expect men to behave rationally. Must...