Word: bedevilment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Informed Alarm. Last week, running the college with casual, kindly autocracy, waving to undergraduates as he stomped about the campus, Carleton's President Laurence McKinley Gould went about the business of finding the money. His method: to bedevil the rich with reports of the U.S.'s conspicuous complacency-much as Economist Thorstein Veblen (Carleton '80) once hounded them with charges of "conspicuous consumption." A scholar who would be concerned about U.S. educational standards if Russia were inhabited solely by musk oxen, Gould does not hesitate to point with alarm at the Red satellites long after the furor...
...Fast, Too Soon. The failure was due to one of those technical minutiae that bedevil rocketeers. The Jupiter's reliable first stage had been modified for the occasion by elongating its tanks to give it more fuel capacity. This required a change in the complicated valve that controls the mixture of kerosene and liquid oxygen. Apparently the rejiggered valve did not work quite right. Either the kerosene or lox was used up too fast, and the flame went out 3.7 seconds sooner than it should have. The toolow boost of the first stage (plus a small aiming error) kept...
...minutes that followed, 67-year-old Charles de Gaulle, who knows how to make an effective short speech, briskly ticked off the awesome array of problems that bedevil France-rebellion in Algeria, strained relations with Tunisia, impending economic catastrophe, an unworkable system of government. In a burst of eloquence, he concluded: " 'Is not all this too much for us?' murmur those who. because they believe nothing can succeed, end up by wanting nothing to succeed . . . No, it is not too much for France, for this marvelous country that despite its past trials and the disorder of its affairs...
...York Evening Post to start work as a $100-a-week deskman on Harold Wallace Ross's The New Yorker. Thurber was then 32; The New Yorker had just turned two; and Editor Ross, at 34, was already the whip-wielding crank who was to inspire and bedevil staffers until his death in 1951. In the November Atlantic Humorist Thurber started a serialized memoir of Ross by recalling their early days together...
...Robert Andrew Parker, 29, lanky father of four, has made a brilliant end run that skirts nearly all the technical thrashing and rehashing that bedevil Manhattan painters. His subjects range from such imaginary portraits as King Gustave of Sweden Tatting to East Riding of Yorkshire Yeomanry Disembarking from H.M.S. Cressy , the fourth in a series of watercolors which sprang from the war games that Parker, a lead-soldier enthusiast, played until recently on the mudflat at suburban Mamaroneck, N.Y. Parker's drenched watercolors. done on rolls of plain shelf paper, now appear in the collections of both the Whitney...