Word: beavering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...actually do know how to sit back and live. These benefits may be nullified, however, by the recommendations of America's athletic Bernard Baruchs. While Russia is currently presenting itself as the essence of gentlemanly sportsmanship, America's coaches are stressing their newly discovered political responsibility, adopting the eager-beaver attitude of the Soviet Union and lamenting the fact that our social system doesn't breed Amazons. Soon IBM machines will be clicking in Washington, and selected Harvard freshmen will be abducted to Dartmouth to be taught the diplomatic art of skiing...
...Pink Was My Pally. Most intolerable to Mr. Hamish Gleave are the Americans-the eager-beaver young men from the State Department, who do not wear waistcoats, who take security leaks so seriously, and whose typists earn more than he does. If Novelist Llewellyn is to be believed, the anti-American feeling runs like a psychosis through much of the Foreign Office. Better, thinks Gleave, the Russians than the Yanks with their "sample cases and cigars." Better the naked power of the Soviet, which does not make him bitter about his frayed cuffs...
...things, and once started, it seemed to sweep onward like a flooded stream; there was no stopping it." An example of Burchfield's new-found freedom is Summer Afternoon (opposite), started as a sketch in 1917 and completed as a watercolor in 1948. The finished scene shows Little Beaver Creek, Burchfield's boyhood swimming hole, capturing with almost Van Gogh-like intensity his own feeling of "the ineffable peace of a quiet summer day in those far-off times. All things seem to look at and yearn toward...
...Gray Flannel Suit. It was perhaps significant of the relative absence of satire that so gentle a writer as J. P. Marquand emerged with the year's best American satirical novel. Sincerely, Willis Wayde, the derisive and sympathetic portrait of an eager-beaver businessman who so hotly wooed success that he unwittingly lost his decency during the courtship...
...adopted home province of New Brunswick, Britain's Ontario-born Lord Beaverbrook, 75, jauntily snipped a red-white-and-blue ribbon, thus opened an early Christmas gift to the locals, a $400,000 skating rink. Performing this duty "with a warm heart in a cold climate," The Beaver was proudly armed with a certificate, presented by Fredericton's mayor, giving him the freedom of the city. Whimsically, Lord Beaverbrook recalled a similar rite: "Some years ago I was given the Order of Suvorov, First Class, in Russia, and I said then . . . does it mean that I have many...