Word: wretchedness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Space was just getting boffo. TV at the time was reeking with quiz scandals, and Wolper decided that the respectable public-affairs bit held the treasuries of the future. He made his celebrated Race for Space, but the networks refused to show it, saying that they would never broadcast a...
If anybody can help make the U.S. Education Commissioner's Office into a real center of influence on America's schools, rather than the wayside information booth it always has been, it is President Kennedy's most recent Harvard appointment. Dean Keppel's creation of intern and team teaching, his...
The long dalliance with the fretful young fop Douglas begins with besotted love notes ("My Own Boy, it is a marvel that those red rose-leaf lips of yours should have been made no less for music of song than for madness of kisses") and reaches its most wretched state...
There ensued a massive international legal tangle. In Israel, Soblen's lawyers challenged the legality of his expulsion, later applied in his behalf for a visa under the "law of return," which gives every Jew the right to enter Israel as an immigrant; both moves failed. In Britain, Soblen...
Albania is the most wretched country in Europe. Hardly anybody wants in, and most of its people, given half a chance, would like to get out.