Word: offing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Polo, Everyone? There is the lofty insularity once betrayed by the Du Ponts when the company was approached with the idea of sponsoring a 3 o'clock Sunday afternoon radio program. The Du Pont people wanted none of it. "At 3 o'clock on Sunday afternoons," they said...
For sheer aplomb, the proper Bostonian can scarcely be bettered. When Mr. and Mrs. N. Penrose Hallowell were selling their home to Mr. Howard Johnson of eatery fame, Mrs. Hallowell expressed the hope that Mr. and Mrs. Johnson would have a happy future in the house. There was a perceptible...
Maritally, U.S. Society abandoned the "double standard" only to adopt the quadruple and sextuple standards. Gentleman Editor Frank (Vanity Fair) Crowninshield epigrammatized the situation: "Married men make very poor husbands." By their second or third generations, most U.S. moneyed clans are marked for either 1) distinction, 2) extinction. Those that...
The Magnificent Seven. The best western so far this year, this film is an impressive and occasionally profound contemplation of the life of violence.
Village of the Damned. The nifty little horror tale of an English town whose populace is briefly paralyzed, its women mysteriously impregnated.