Word: cheeked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Other Cheek. It is the Jew's sense of special purpose, says Ussher, that has made him an object of resentment to the non-Jewish majority-who have spent centuries trying savagely to persuade the Jew that he has no claim to a creed of hope and purpose. During most of history, the Jews have responded with Gandhi-like nonresistance. The tragi-comical result, says Ussher, is that the Jews have acted in essence like Christians, and Christians as followers of the tribal Jehovah. But Jewish doggedness, in Ussher's view, has harmed as well as saved...
...Englishman living in California sent a clipping of the letter to the Newmarket Journal, which printed it without comment last week. Newmarket (pop. 9,767) exploded. "Damned cheek!" snorted outraged townsfolk in bus queues and pubs. Growled George Goult, chairman of the urban district council: "I and the rest of the town take a very poor view of it... We shall refute it officially." London tabloids stirred up a fuss...
...Guajira Peninsula, at the northernmost tip of South America, live 18,000 nomadic Indians who roam a sandy waste (part Colombian territory, part Venezuelan) mounted on horses or old Ford trucks. Anthropologists' accounts of the Guajiro Indians read like tongue-in-cheek parodies of all sober treatises on Quaint Customs of the Aborigines. Item: a thief hurt while trespassing on the property of an intended victim can demand, and get, compensation from the property owner. Item: suicide is a means of vengeance; the person who kills himself believes that he will suffer less than those who goaded him into...
...Washington party, the New York Times's Pundit Arthur Krock got a tongue-in-cheek proposition from his good friends, Columnists Joseph & Stewart Alsop. Why shouldn't they team up in a "bloody triangle of journalism," each turn out one column a week? That way, they could get away with less work. Next day Timesman Krock sat down at his typewriter and, showing an unsuspected gift for satire, knocked out a column, sent it off to the Alsops. Stewart Alsop thought so much of it that last week he had it framed and hung on the wall...
Rabelais had his tongue in his cheek as usual-yet as usual his enunciation of the home truth was unimpaired. To get the marrow out of the masterpiece, it is pretty necessary to follow the dog's example, and in modern times, rather few readers, all in all, have cared to exert enough jaw for that. Rabelais has been put aside, largely untasted, on the snap judgment that he is, as Voltaire said, a "drunken philosopher" who wrote "an extravagant and unintelligent book . . . prodigal of erudition, ordures and boredom." The book which Rabelais merrily dedicated to "Drinkers and . . . Syphilitics...