Word: breathingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Borrowed by the A.A.U. from the Army, Private Bragg. 23, visited France last month as an athletic ambassador. Excitable French newsmen were dazzled, saw in him the epitome of Edgar Rice Burroughs' jungle boy. "Bragg, the Tarzan of athletics, knocked the breath out of the Paris public." gasped the Paris France-Soir. "If gentle Jane had kneeled beside him. and Cheetah had jumped to his side," thrilled the Paris-Presse, "nobody would have been surprised...
...damnation festering in the world, and asks to be hanged for double murder of the rag and bones man and a pimp, only to be ignored. A witch arrives, breathless from a chase over eight walls, but is nonetheless scheduled for an early a.m. burning. Alizon Eliot, a young breath of innocence fresh from the convent, comes to marry Humphrey Devise, is playfully desired by the impish younger brother Nicholas, falls in love with orphaned Richard, the Mayor's clerk, and grows into a woman by the end of act three. The witch, Jennet, also has time to bewitch Thomas...
Blowing incessantly, desiccating the town and the vineyards, pausing only to howl at a higher pitch, is a "furious monotonous purposeless wind"-hence the book's title. It is the breath of a malevolent universe and carries the inevitability of human defeat...
...ridden that even the Count of Monte Cristo would wince ("I'll teach her who's the Queen of Spain!" cries the Queen of Spain). Actor Franciosa brings a certain expression to the role of Goya, but only one: that of a little boy holding his breath until he gets blue in the face. Still, that puts him one up on Actress Gardner...
...prices argument. John Kenneth Galbraith, Harvard economist, author of the currently popular The Affluent Society, and in no sense an apologist for business, takes the line that a large amount of administered pricing is inherent in the modern economic system. Says he: "Those who deplore it are wasting their breath. The problem is to understand it and to live with it." The overlooked truth that Galbraith and others come back to is that businessmen today cannot operate on prices that run up and down like a boiler-room thermometer. They have to have prices stable over a period of time...