Word: bane
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...routed 10,000 in front of the Justice Department. Marshals shouldn't have tried to stop the militants. The marshals' job was finished at 3. They had proved that we could all march together. The Justice Department action only served to split the marchers into opposed factions, an eternal bane of left wing crusades...
WESTPORT, CONN. Country Playhouse. Hans Conried plays a retired Connecticut Yankee chicken farmer who finds New York commuters both the boon and bane of his existence in Herman Shumlin's Spofford, a cut-down version of Peter De Vries' novel, Reuben, Reuben...
...starts) and now the horse's trainer. Says Johnny: "Hartack is so high on this colt he comes out to work him in the mornings, and you know how many name jocks do that." Even his blacksmith finds the Prince charming. "His hoofs," says Bill Bane, "are as perfect a set as I've been privileged to work with for many a year...
Hasek's Schweyk was an Austro-Hungarian Imperial recruit whose very literal-minded obedience proves the bane of his superior officers. By the time of the Second War, Schweyk's position has become more complicated, and Brecht's hero has as more difficult task; a civilian now, he juggles the roles of partisan and seeming colla-borator. He still feeds his friends, still rattles military authority, still tries to stay alive, but there is somewhat less call on his innocence, somewhat more on his cunning. Brecht's Schweyk is already a conscious, canny resister. Nor does the progress end there...
...Once the bane of streetwalkers and their patrons, Phthirus pubis, or the crab louse, is exhibiting upward mobility. As sexual barriers tumble, the tenacious parasites are infesting more and more middle-class youngsters. One reason, says Boston Dermatologist A. Bernard Ackerman in the New England Journal of Medicine, is that the bugs are making the scene at hippie love-ins. And it is only a short hop from the crash pad to the college crowd...