Word: wretchedness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Now the Feast. Then Paris was drab, hungry and humiliated, poisoned by haphazard action against collaborationists, corrupted by the black market, weakened by class hatreds and inflation. Now its buildings are resplendent as the result of cleaning and restoration; the Parisian feasts at the most majestic table in the world...
When Dr. David Livingstone wandered through the wilds of Mozambique a century ago, he found only "wretched forts full of military convicts with bugles and kettledrums." Today the forts are far from wretched. Big, solidly built, and bristling with guns, they are manned by thousands of tough young Portuguese soldiers...
this wretched
Lobster Pot. Ice exists, of course, because when fat cats want theater tick ets, the price does not matter. So $20, $25, $50, sometimes $100 is paid for a $9.60 ticket. The annual take in ice has been estimated at more than $10 million. Among major icemen, box office employees...
For its major work, the orchestra performed excerpts from Prokofiev's ballet Romeo and Juliet, combining these with readings from the play. Mr. Manusevitch had obviously rehearsed this wonderful music thoroughly; except for some wretched brass playing in an andante section, all of the movements were well done. The speakers...