Word: beatness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Beach and Greenwich Village provide the bulk, with the ballast variously composed of universities, small Southern towns, and writers' colonies in Arizona and New Mexico. Most of the little magazines are part of a post-war inflation for the avant garde. In the general confusion which gave culture the Beat, Silent, Sad, Brown, and Breathless Generations, art and intellectual vomit (the boundary has been transgressed) have prospered if not much improved...
...politics were to grant two wishes to the Republicans, they would wish: 1) that there were no such thing as a Democratic Senator named John Fitzgerald Kennedy, or, failing this; 2) that the Republicans could find such a man-brave, well-known, experienced, heavily coifed, well-born-who could beat the stuffing out of Senator John Fitzgerald Kennedy...
...gubernatorial race against Democratic Incumbent Foster Furculo, 46, who will be another hard man to beat, the G.O.P. skipped over Christian Herter Jr. -son of the U.S. Under Secretary of State and onetime Massachusetts Governor-who was willing to tackle the job (TIME, Jan. 20), instead picked a longtime officeholder, State Attorney General George Fingold, 49. of Concord. Mass. Herter's consolation prize: candidacy for Attorney General Fingold's job. Republican consensus: 1) primary troubles in the gubernatorial runoff between Fingold and Charlie Gibbons. 2) lamb stew for Vincent J. Celeste in the senatorial elections. Reason: Massachusetts...
...supreme utility is freedom with reasonable comfort. The human being should have a passionate wash to be free rather than a passionate wish to be a possessor. In the old days you lived a good life, served God and went to Heaven. What are we living for? To beat the Russians? Own one automobile, two, three, four...
There was nothing surprising about the scores; the New York Yankees were supposed to beat their kissin' cousins, the Kansas City Athletics-even if the A's were in second place. Still, there was something special about the doubleheader that dragged through a damp afternoon and evening at Yankee Stadium last week. For those two games told the story of American League baseball in the summer of 1958: when Yankee hitters were hot, their pitchers held off the opposition and they breezed home (10-2). When Yankee hitters were helpless, their pitchers held off the opposition and they...