Word: carrouseling
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Sense of Place. Louise's ride on the carrousel was nearly over. Her oldest son. Willie, was killed in a riding accident at his French chateau. Daughter Eva married an Italian count who proved to be a blackmailer. And on a summer evening in 1902, Louise sat by John Mackay's bedside and watched as he died of pneumonia...
...scorn. At first, Krassowski and his friend were people too. The carnies were polite enough, but they were slow to accept the newcomers as part of their world. Then, after dismantling their stand one closing night, Krassowski and his friend offered to help some "ride-boys" take down their carrousel. They worked from midnight until 4 a.m., but they had unwittingly passed an important test. "A carny who refuses 'beef' " (i.e., refuses to help), an oldtimer explained, "is no carny...
Compounded of despair and loneliness, this is the kind of mental ballast that is inevitably tied down by chains of cynicism. Rays of compassion in poems and plays notwithstanding, Williams cannot hold back part of the contempt he feels for man and his role on earth. In Carrousel Tune it comes...
Strangers on a Train (Warner), Alfred Hitchcock's latest thriller, winds up with a scene in which a merry-go-round goes wild, spins like a pin wheel, and crashes in a gaudy blaze of explosions that no earthly carrousel could touch off. The movie itself is the same way: implausible but intriguing and great fun to ride...
...Round. This week all these items were tossed in the firebox of Drew Pearson's clangorous Washington Merry-Go-Round. Such fuel, some chestnut-sized, some no bigger than pea coal, and every now & then a nugget as big as a man's hand, has kept the carrousel spinning for 16 years. Next week, the column and its author will share a milestone: on Dec. 13, Pearson's 51st birthday, the Merry-Go-Round will start its 17th year. Under a newly signed contract, Pearson can be pretty sure of four more years as the world...