Word: worsted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Washington, there was little public discussion in the early stage of the crisis. Only toward week's end did President Johnson publicly discuss it. By then, the worst of the general offensive seemed repulsed and the U.S. command in Saigon was reporting that the attacks had cost the Communists 14,997 dead (a figure considered by many to be inflated) against 367 American and 738 Vietnamese fatalities...
...requirement won't depopulate Harvard language courses. Next year the CEP may be able to forego its annual and always lengthy theoretical debate on language study. For the student the change may not be the optimum solution, but it is the only politically feasible one and will eliminate the worst hardships of the present scheme...
...expert to make such mistakes in a novel-but To Brooklyn with Love is not really a novel, since the author does not seem to control the recollections that sweep him along. It is a superb memoir indifferently disguised as fiction. If Albert the world's worst punchball player did not actually become Gerald the novelist, at very least they must have shared Brownsville in the 1930s. The reader sees this after 20 pages of irritation, and the awkward pretense of fiction no longer matters. The book, with all its misty ruefulness, is enormously likable...
...that isn't the point. Whether or not Avatar is written well or not is not grounds for its being suppressed. Important issues never come conveniently packaged. Let's suppose that Avatar is the worst written of the underground newspapers (which it is not). Who is to say that tomorrow some Cambridge magnate might not decide that the CRIMSON is offensive and badly written. The parallel is admittedly a bad one because Harvard University wields a big stick in town and the local officials wouldn't want to tangle with Harvard Law professors over the issue. The point is, however...
...Italian, Keith Baxter is droll in the best and worst sense of that awful word. The girl, Jennifer Hillary, pleasantly undercuts Baxter's greasiness and has a tolerable delivery in the fine old Joan Greenwood tradition. But Robert Reed as the American makes nothing of a vaguely interesting character; the best that can be said for him is that he has changed since The Defenders. Finally Betsy von Furstenberg has received such prominent credit in the program for her two-second walk-on that further comment would constitute overkill...