Word: centaur
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Plants on the Continent. After developing huge production facilities for making Churchill and Centaur tanks during World War II, Leyland realized that postwar Britain would be too small a market for its potential output. The company began developing export markets more diligently than most British manufacturers, sent its top executives around the world to meet customers and learn the conditions under which Leyland trucks would operate. Even with sports cars, the company has kept its sharp eye for local conditions; when it learned that the average age of the U.S. buyers of its TR3 was 47, it decided...
...Seven Days in May, Knebel and Bailey (1) 4. Grandmother and the Priests, Caldwell (4) 5. The Sand Pebbles, McKenna (5) 6. Fail-Safe, Burdick and Wheeler (10) 7. The Moonflower Vine, Carleton (8) 8. The Tin Drum, Grass (7) 9. The Moon-Spinners, Stewart (6) 10. The Centaur, Updike...
...week) 2. The Sand Pebbles, McKenna (4) 3. Seven Days in May, Knebel and Bailey (2) 4. The Glass-Blowers, Du Maurier (3) 5. Grandmother and the Priests, Caldwell (9) 6. Triumph, Wylie (7) 7. Fail-Safe, Burdick and Wheeler (5) 8. The Moon-Spinners, Stewart (8) 9. The Centaur, Updike 10. The Moonflower Vine, Carleton...
...Centaur, by John Updike. A Greek myth in imaginative modern dress, with a woebegone high school teacher cast in the role of the tragic centaur Chiron...
...Here to Stay "not stimulant, but barbiturate"; Dwight Macdonald wished aloud that Arthur Schlesinger "had never gotten involved with high politics." The Review ignored only what it considered trivial "except occasionally to reduce a temporarily inflated reputation." Among the reputations it sought to deflate: John Updike's The Centaur ("a poor novel irritatingly marred by good features"); J. D. Salinger's Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters (he "deals with the emotions and problems of adolescence, and it is no great slight to him to say that he has not yet advanced beyond them"); Edward Albee...