Word: beating
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rubrics: Sex and Society in Modern England, and The Sorrows of Jimmy Porter; sociology, and self-pity. Within these constantly-overlapping categories he ranges widely and cogently. His comment on his well-bred in-laws is a pretty good capsule comment on the spirit that conquered India and beat the fuzzy-wuzzies: "They'll kick you in the groin while you hand your hat to the maid...
...facts, with the additional fact that Jimmy is not averse to making similar contributions to the nocturnal happiness of other women, comprise Mr. Osborne's simple, sufficient plot. The air in the Porters' dingy attic is thick with a one-way stream of recriminations; Jimmy has no need to beat his wife when he can browbeat her so effectively. At one point she leaves him; eventually she comes back, and the curtain falls on the same situation that prevailed before it rose...
...recent months British newsmen have swarmed over SAC headquarters at Omaha, flown H-bomb patrol over Alaska, eyewitnessed moon shots at Cape Canaveral, studied the lot of the Manhattan chairwoman, tuned in on Beat-Generation talk in San Francisco. London Sunday Times Reporter Kenneth Pearson flew over to file a three-part series on the Broadway musical, West Side Story-inspiring the London Daily Express to fly the West Side troupe to London for a night...
With the accent on de-emphasis, some Ivy alumni find the results deplorable. The Ivies have taken some horrendous beatings when they ventured out of the family. This season Pennsylvania suffered fearsome lickings at the hands of Penn State (43-0) and Navy (50-8), Cornell was dismembered by Syracuse 55-0, and Princeton got bombed by Rutgers 28-0. Even the University of Buffalo beat Columbia and Harvard...
...League administrators are happy. With uniform admission standards, they turn up with teams of roughly equal strength that beat each other with unpredictable irregularity, making up in excitement what they may lack in consistent skill. They even produce a few topflight football players. The likes of Harvard's Tackle Bob ("Shag") Shaunessy, Brown...