Word: 90s
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...toward God," wrote a crazy mixed-up Frenchman named Joris-Karl Huysmans. He was never so crazy as when he earnestly took up diabolism. The record of his descent to the depths among the witches and warlocks of Paris was written in the first year of the '90s, and nothing more appalling appeared in the rest of that de cadent decade. Là-Bas, now republished in the U.S., might well call to the mind of old-fashioned readers Browning...
...since it refers to my father, A. N. Lodygin [producer of the "Russian sun"-Russia's first electric light]. Although he never completed his citizenship, he was devoted to the U.S. His incandescent lamp foreign patents led the Westinghouse Co. to invite him to Pittsburgh in the '90s. My father always said that he had developed the lamp as an incidental part of his heavier-than-air flying machine, which occupied much of his thought. He died in Brooklyn in 1923 at the age of 75, his last years saddened by the civil war in Russia. MRS. FREDERICK...
Battle of Monocles. In the third Covent Garden, designed 100 years ago by Architect Edward Barry, the fires have been artistic or temperamental, set by such prima donnas as Giulia Grisi, Nellie Melba, Emma Albani. In the '90s, Adelina Patti, who imperiously ignored rehearsals, once filled the stage with detectives disguised as supers to guard her diamonds. Famed Manager Augustus Harris made Covent Garden London's choicest nightspot for rich and royal patrons who came to monocle each other-and protested violently when he doused the house lights during performances...
Bundled up in a double-breasted blue suit over a long-sleeved blue pullover despite humid Texas temperatures in the 90s, owlish Poet Thomas Stearns Eliot, 69, read his own verse to some 11,000 in Austin and Dallas, had some clipped words for the Waste Landish poets of the ''Beat Generation": "I have always felt about any form of existentialism the way James Thurber felt about the Civil War-I beg your pardon, the War Between the States-I expect to see it blow over. I don't see why a whole generation should...
...Nobel Prize for his discovery (in 1940) of element 94 (plutonium), has since played a heavy role in finding subsequent elements (through No. 101). Although he finds little time nowadays for following football very closely (he is faculty representative to the Pacific Coast Conference), Seaborg does play golf (low 90s), swims in his backyard pool. One current project: search for the next synthetic element (No. 103). "The inner rewards," says he, "are very great. Science is the new frontier, and we all like adventure...