Word: bernard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Moving from Creation to the Last Judgment, the Raising of Lazarus to the Crucifixion, the Wakefield Plays open a window on a long-gone world when, in the words of the Mermaid's Founder-Director Bernard Miles, "life was a unity-swear words, sexual references, prayer and devotion unashamedly mixed...
...bathrobe, like a Channel swimmer. But most of the time, she is unshakable and very much in charge of things. "If I were having a frontal lobotomy," she says, "I'd tell them how to do it, like 'try going in through the ear.' '' Possibly if Bernard Shaw had known American women better, he might have invented Jean Kerr. Like almost all Shavian heroines, she is articulate, cheerful, casually domineering, competent, simple ?a bit of the Earth Mother whom Shaw was forever recreating...
...produced a rush by farmers to grow sugar cane, and Florida hopes for a 20% rise in its sugar quota. Floridians support the nation's biggest dog-racing industry and train a big share of its trotting horses in such sun-drenched towns as Ocala, where Sofa Manufacturer Bernard Castro is a leading horse breeder...
...Angeles, after two previous juries had deadlocked on the case, ruddy-faced Dr. Raymond Bernard Finch, 43. and Carole Tregoff, 24, his secretary and paramour, were finally found guilty of murdering his wife one summer night in 1959 (TIME, Feb. 15, 1960). The third jury brushed aside Finch's claim that the shooting had been accidental, found him guilty of first-degree murder, her guilty of second-degree murder, and both guilty of conspiracy to murder. When the jury meets again this week to fix punishment, Finch could get death on his first-degree murder count, Carole life...
...craven idol. The ammunition that Author Fitch, 59. brings to the neo-orthodox,-neo-conservative battle camp is shiny with polemical wit and brilliance, but his essential targets have long since been peppered by profounder critics, among them Reinhold Niebuhr (The Nattire and Destiny of Man), Bernard Iddings Bell (Crowd Culture), José Ortega y Gasset (Revolt of the Masses'). He seems temperamentally torn between being a Christian critic and playing the Spenglerian doomsayer in tones that resemble that carbuncular Shakespearean scold, Thersites ("Lechery, lechery! Still wars and lechery"). Between the wailing and the railing, some valid points...