Word: bushed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Among them: Edgar Johnson, of New York's City College, who owns Charles Dickens; Ernest J. Simmons, who took over Tolstoy with a whopping biography in 1946, recently became a two-man proprietor when his massive study of Chekhov (TIME, Oct. 19) came out; Harvard's Douglas Bush, who has monopolized Milton since 1945 and may set the 20th century endurance record as titleholder, a triumph only slightly tarnished by the fact that Milton can hardly be described as a hotly pursued property. Ex-Proprietor Boswell is himself now possessed by Yale's renowned scholar Frederick...
...think it should have gone years ago to Robert Frost," commented J. Douglas Bush, Gurney Professor of English Literature...
Monroe Engel '42, lecturer in English, felt that "there are obviously more deserving people around who've been passed over too long." Engel agreed with Bush and Alfred that Frost would have been a more logical choice...
...week Cordell helicoptered over the jungle on the lookout for Red guerrillas, who farther south were being buffeted by a massive government offensive against the Viet Cong stronghold of Tayninh province, 50 miles northwest of Saigon. The government mission was a failure; forewarned, the Reds slipped away into the bush, lost only 45 men killed in seven days. But in the central highlands the Viet Cong did exact a heavy toll. From a jungle hiding spot, their fire ripped into Cordell's helicopter and sent it crashing to earth, killing the captain and two companions, bringing...
...rather than roared, and the winds that ruffled the trees were rarely rougher than breezes. As the years passed, Inness softened his outlines until all the shapes and forms of nature seemed about to melt together. At their best, his paintings have a rare dreamlike unity: every tree and bush is in its place, but never so greedy for attention as to jolt the overall harmony...