Word: catchingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...catch my kids reading any of the condensed classics, I'll whack them with a rolled-up Readers Digest...
Questioned in the witness chair about mob-union connections, Teitelbaum tried to duck under the Fifth Amendment and the First, Sixth and Sixteenth. Back in River Forest, glued to their TV sets for the Chicago telecast of the hearings, Tony Accardo's neighbors began to catch a glimpse of how he earns his living...
...energy all right; he is writing a thesis, plays catch with his wife and sons, and runs a troop of Boy Scouts. But Author Barth matches him with a crushing tragedy in the face of which his pragmatism is meaningless and his nihilism a cheerless thing. The agent of his undoing is the narrator of the book, Jacob Horner, one of the most fascinatingly dreadful characters to appear in a long time. He is self-described as "owl. peacock, chameleon, donkey and popinjay, fugitive from a medieval bestiary." In more modern terms, he is also a manic-depressive...
...refrigerators will travel to New York and back as a floating art show on the S.S. Liberté, then will be auctioned off for charity. Whether the culture-in-the-kitchen movement would catch on, not even the cool heads at General Motors (France)-who supplied the Frigidaires-cared to predict. Pablo Picasso had an opinion on the subject. Asked to contribute to the show, Picasso had refused. He wouldn't want to use anything but white paint on a refrigerator, he said, "so why bother...
...title story, an old man of the theater still has the habit but not the manpower to go with it. Left by his mistress, aging George tries to remarry his divorced wife. Turned down, he turns to a much younger woman for whom the old boy is a catch of convenience. Married, he discovers that a marriage of male habit and female indifference is not enough to keep off the evening chill. After a trip to Italy, his wife recites a simple fact of life to him: "George, you know you're getting too old for this sort...