Word: squanders
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Whatever their water problems, whatever sends them out to squabble with their neighbors, more often than not cities and nations have only themselves to blame. They squander their supplies in haphazard irrigation, pollute their readiest sources, and are casual about preparing for dry years. In 1950 a research team warned New York City that it would need additional water by 1970, recommended the installation of meters* and stringent measures to stop leakage in the aqueducts and water mains. A pumping station was built upriver on the Hudson, then dismantled as soon as the 1950-51 emergency was over. Nothing...
...virtue. Mastroianni's vain, middle-aged gallan-checking the coxcomb at every mirror, sneaking into a little dance of smug self-satisfaction -smacks of the satyr that most men yearn to be when the moon is right. And Sophia has become far too perceptive an actress to squander her talents as a mere prostitute-with-a-heart-of-gold. Now wild, now touchingly woebegone, now coolly indomitable, she is Everywoman, Italian style...
...than real depth. As production, it stunningly displays its homework in the solid sweep of Norman arches, the mist-and-heath-er greens of old England. But in the end it holds interest chiefly as a pageant so prodigally endowed with talent that it can, for example, afford to squander Sir John Gielgud in a minor role as Louis VII of France...
Today, however, he decides to go to Paris-apparently to give life one more chance, actually to squander his last sou of hope. One by one he sees his friends again; one by one they are revealed as social Parisites much like himself. In drunken despair he cries: "I cannot love! I cannot touch! And if I do touch I feel nothing!" Le morningafter, he starts packing that...
...that it once supplied civil servants for many other French colonies and boasted that "brains are our biggest export"; now it has an increasingly serious white-collar unemployment problem, for newly independent West African nations train their own government officials. The Dahomey rioters also denounced President Maga's "squander-mania," notably the magnificent palace he built himself...