Word: except
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...most discussed picture in Manhattan cannot be seen-except in reproduction (opposite). Salvador Dali's Christopher Columbus Discovers America, commissioned by A. & P. Heir Huntington Hartford, was given a one-day "private" champagne showing at Manhattan's French & Co. attended by a handful of critics and a mob of snobs, then rolled up and stored away to await the opening of Hartford's "Gallery of Modern Art" on Columbus Circle two years hence...
...Samples: "Seldom during the day do I talk to anyone over three feet tall. This little world I live in is no place for someone over 21. Since I am over 21 (slightly), send Times." "People think my husband's brilliant. Nobody thinks I'm brilliant. Except me. Send Times." "In college I wrote an A paper debunking Spinoza. Today I write grocery lists. Maybe the Times will start the gears running again...
...boredom and confusion?" ¶ "Athens too had its folks who had gramophones beside them, or jazz, or bridge to keep talk away. But in our time the dread of conversation has invaded classes higher than in Athens." ¶"To me it seems puerile to regard anything as ugly except in the sense that it is lifeless...
...other hand, baffles her: "Recently I went to an exhibition of sculpture and saw what I thought was a swordfish. But I was told it was a family going out for a walk." Actually, this is a rather apt description of an Ivy Compton-Burnett novel, except that the family would be a shark...
...single purpose of getting that command across the river in the shortest time possible." Grant learned by doing, and learned slowly. Leading his regiment against the Confederates for the first time, he was beset by a "cold, unreasoned sort of panic," and would have turned back except that he "lacked the moral courage" to give the order. When he discovered that the enemy forces had abandoned their position, he learned his first lesson: "The other fellow had just as much reason to be afraid...