Word: offing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Can't you do something about your movie critic? He belongs on one of those small, arty magazines-not on a popular, large-circulation magazine.
Your fine review of Ingmar Bergman's The Virgin Spring approaches the film from the only possible angle-that of the myth that it is. It could serve as an example to other reviewers, too, many of whom fallaciously judge films (and books and plays) on the basis of...
President-elect John Kennedy stood in the patio of his father's Palm Beach villa last week and announced the appointment of California Insuranceman J. Edward Day as his Postmaster General. "Having just mailed a letter from Washington to Boston and having it take eight days to get there...
Collectively, the Cabinet wound up squarely in the middle of the Democratic road-and miles from the left-side soft shoulder that sometimes seemed to be promised in Kennedy campaigning. Reading from right to left they ranged from North Carolina Democrat Luther Hodges (Commerce), 62, through Republican Douglas Dillon (Treasury...
In age, the Cabinet members averaged 47, four years older than the President-elect himself. There were six Protestants, two Jews, one Roman Catholic and one Mormon, or-to put it another way-three Governors, two businessmen, two lawyers, two State Department hands and a Congressman. Some critics thought that...