Word: worsted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...what to do about loud brass (ignore them or they will play louder), Swarowsky subjects his charges to a withering barrage of criticism. "Stop boxing," he grumbles, or "Stop moving your fanny; I'm not teaching ballet." Even a compliment may be prefaced with "That was the worst thing I have seen in my whole life." Such treatment, says Swarowsky, "strengthens their character and teaches them how to gain the upper hand of the orchestra...
This is the worst of times, though, to try to get the public to pay attention to the nation's library needs, and there seems little alternative but to wait. For the present the "life of its own" Bryant sees for the ACLS report must be counted among the Vietnam war casualties...
...worst is Elizabeth Taylor, who has a series of walk-ons mostly meant to exemplify lust. Her makeup varies from Greek statuesque to a head-to-toe spray job of aluminum paint. When she welcomes Burton to an eternity of damnation, her eyeballs and teeth are dripping pink in what seems to be a hellish combination of conjunctivitis and trench mouth. Mercifully mute throughout, she merely moves in and out of camera range, breasting the waves of candle smoke, dry-ice vapor and vulgarity that swirl through the sets...
...outward affluence and fake wellbeing, says Author de Beauvoir, are the worst kind of illusion; reality is bile. Yet on the very last page, there seems to be a smidgen of vague hope, at least for the children-maybe. That is small compensation for a novel that is distinguished otherwise only for its predictable course and Gallic ennui...
...historical process?" This leads to the search for a vantage point--an "identical subject-object of history'--from which to view the disparate and fluid arrangements of human affairs. To look at history from any but this vantage point would be to obtain at best an incomplete, at worst a distorted or ideological notion of affairs...