Word: aptly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...final story included is John Updike's "Wife-Wooing," a five-page hymn to love. While his predilections for cosmetics, hamburgers, and certain other American specialties seem out of place, his tone is beautifully consistent, his citing and borrowing from Ulysses indeed apt. Most important--and I suppose it's too bad for us--"Wife-Wooing" implies what is dally becoming more and more apparent: in a society which promises as much and fulfills as little as ours, one can honestly avoid hypocrisy only in meaningfully close personal ties
...World Champion Pirates won by seven games last year, and return with exceptional balance. Their augmented bullpen (Shantz, Face, Labine, and Green) is apt to be the best in the majors. But the Pirates need maximum performance from everyone to pull through; at present they are great more in terms of publicity than performance. Mazeroski, for example, whose homer felled the Yankees, may be capable of hitting .300, but he is just as likely to bat .250. The same holds for Hoak, Stuart, Cimoli, and Hal Smith...
Although he died in 1855, the great Dan ish existentialist Soren Kierkegaard de scribed the effects of anxiety in terms that are strikingly apt today. He spoke of his "cowardly age," in which "one does ev erything possible...
Fearful that the upcoming trial of Adolf Eichmann might provoke a new era of anti-German feeling, Chancellor Konrad Adenauer held a rare press conference, expressed his concern. "We Germans," said he, "are apt to forget that part of our past which was anything but pleasant more quickly than people in the countries affected by it." A proxy statement from the stockholder-harassed Chrysler Corp., which just en joyed its first profitable year since 1957, mentioned a raise for Chairman-President Lester Lum Colbert, whose compensation totaled $260,650. Colbert's compact-era 1960 salary boost...
Most major playwrights leave an unmistakable identifying mark on their work. It may be smaller than theme or plot or character; often it is apt to be a recurring vignette, a typical moment. In Greek tragedy, that moment is the hero smiting his brow, discovering a new wrinkle in Fate's design. The Shakespearean moment, in the tragedies, is the restoration of order after individual or civil turmoil; in the comedies, it is the lover's mistaken identity. In Ibsen, it is self-doubt besetting the stolid bourgeois; in Strindberg, it is a shrill cry of female hysteria...