Word: caving
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sudden success beyond the fact that he somehow sounds much better in French than in English. French women regard him as a sort of combination Humphrey Bogart and Bing Crosby. Some of the girls dream that he will drag them by the hair to his champagne-stocked cave, while others like to weep at his middleaged, father-daughter sentiments. Most of his audiences, as a French magazine puts it, simply like to think of him as the fellow who dots the "i" in the verb aimer...
...SCROLLS FROM THE DEAD SEA, by Edmund Wilson (121 pp.; Oxford; $3.25), and THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS, by Millar Burrows (435 pp.; Viking; $6.50), deal with the fascinating manuscripts-Biblical texts, commentaries and Essene writings-found in a cave near the Dead Sea by two Arab boys in 1947 (TIME, Sept. 5). Wilson's book is a graceful, thorough piece of reporting. Burrows, a Yale expert, analyzes the scrolls in detail, shows at precisely what points they may fill in chinks in Biblical history...
...that reminds a moviegoer-in a picture that might otherwise have had high muzzle velocity but slight penetration-that he is witnessing not only an animated newspaper headline, but also a plain parable about human rights and the majesty of the patriarchal principle, which, from the day of the cave to the advent of the split-level, has kept the wolf from the door...
...Moslem resentment smoldered, later flamed up. "Liberation guerrillas" attacked the British, by then withdrawn to the Suez Canal zone. Then they cut loose in Cairo, where they burned bars, restaurants, movie houses (all sinful in Moslem eyes) and hotels frequented by foreigners. Farouk's wobbly government began to cave in and a state of emergency was declared...
Analyst Jones never manages to explain fully Freud's peculiar hostility toward the U.S. He lists trivia, such as 53-year-old Freud's oversensitiveness (surely immature) when a guide in Niagara's Cave of the Winds called: "Let the old fellow go first." And he notes that Freud unfairly blamed rich U.S. food for intestinal trouble that actually antedated his visit by several years, and was probably a psychosomatic remnant of his earlier neurosis. "I often said to myself," Freud once wrote, "that whoever is not master of his Konrad should not set out on travels...