Word: cante
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...alarming degree, a rare and dangerous thing in an actor. He laughs honestly. He lies winningly. He trusts absolutely, and he is as pretty as a hill of granite. He can make anyone laugh. He can talk a man under the table about literature, displaying huge sophistication and no cant. He reads rapidly, but he gives a book its due: a novel like Anglo-Saxon Attitudes costs him only two hours, but Moby Dick is worth four days, and Robert Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy took him "just over three months." He is a walking concordance to Shakespeare. His mind...
...full flush of destalinization, wrote Evgeny Evtushenko. 29. the Russian poet whose honest rage at the cant and callousness of Soviet society has made him the idol of his generation. For a while, in fact, it seemed as if Evtushenko (TIME cover. April 13. 1962) had become a semiofficial Angry Young Marxist, whose occasional excesses were tolerated by the regime because they made it appear as if Khrushchev's Communism could actually accept criticism. If so, Evtushenko pushed his luck...
...balding head. "They always say," murmured Yelberton Abraham Tittle Jr., "that a player is the last one to know when he's too old to play." At 36, the New York Giants' "Yat" Tittle is the oldest quarterback in the National Football League, and the odd cant of his ruddy nose is the talisman of a violent game that he can no longer remember. But nobody-least of all Quarterback-Tittle thinks that he is too ancient to play a young man's game...
Mandel handles the deadly light with only a minimum of the writing-class prose that is standard in novels of this kind. The rich symbolism of the search for wax never becomes cant, even when the soldiers learn that the wax comes from melted saints. The Wax Boom is a commendable book, and, if predicament-describing were the main task of a novelist, it would be an excellent...
...were pleased to learn that Gilbert Cant, TIME'S Medicine editor since 1949, has been awarded $2,500 and a gold statuette as winner of the 1961 Albert Lasker Medical Journalism award for outstanding medical reporting in magazines. Cant's cover story on Virologist John Enders (TIME, Nov. 17) was cited for "presenting an exciting and informative view of the world of viruses" that "has set a high standard deserving of emulation." Nobel Prizewinner Enders himself, in a letter to Cant, called the piece "an excellent statement in a short compass of the present state of virology. Comments...