Word: bunched
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Quartets. In social studies they have sampled everything from De Tocqueville to William Graham Sumner. But however tough the work, they seem to thrive. Says Chicago's Assistant Professor Guy Omer Jr. of his science class: "I drew the lessons from our third-year college work, and this bunch of high-school kids has on the whole done as well in five weeks' time as our third-year college students...
...Godden (Viking; $2.50), boasts one of the smallest heroines in recent fiction: a four-inch china doll. Impunity, like Ibsen's Nora, rebels against the doll's house, so Author Godden (The River, Black Narcissus) treats her to a high old time as the mascot of a bunch of boys who send her aloft with a toy balloon, spin her on a Catherine wheel and race her across a pond in a toy yacht...
...trip roommate, Monte Irvin, laughed apathetically over a joke. Across the room, a group of players carried on a silent gin-rummy game. Conversation, what there was of it, was dominated by an unimaginative profanity. Soon someone cussed out the clubhouse boy and sent him for sandwiches. Outside, a bunch of hopeful boys clustered about the dressing-room window and pleaded for autographs. No one offered an autograph, but one Giant raised his glass of beer and showered it on the kids. Hungry for a pennant, the Giants were suffering from the mean-spirited myopia that shrinks the ballplayer...
...cream men were charging 5 piasters a kilo instead of the customary 1½; and some Vietnamese officials, entrusted with the grave responsibility of determining which citizens should be evacuated by air to Hanoi, were making sure their selections were rewarded. In Namdinh there was also courage: a bunch of Catholic teenagers strapped grenades to their belts and vowed they would start a guerrilla war against the Communists; a Vietnamese priest considered what the Communists might do to him, then calmly decided: 'I shall remain a few more days...
...Dick, the unabashed and unregenerate punster, is the funniest part of Author Peter De Vroes's novel. The story is prety funny too-if somewhat special. It is centered in suburban Connecticut, where a slightly adulterous bunch of New York writers, artists and editors repair from their labors to indulge their neuroses and libidos. Cartoonist Augie Poole is one of them, a 16-cylinder Lothario who knows how to operate on curves. Augie's wife can turn her"china-blue eyes on her husband like two gun barrels," but she loves him and they decide to make themselves...