Word: chirking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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That wretched Mrs. Chirk, she had forgotten her name again! Once it had really been Finch, but after what seemed a lifetime of being miscalled "Chirk" in National Health Service waiting rooms "Chirk" stuck. Not for long, though. "Poor soul," says one character about her, "I wonder when she last knew herself." "Probably never," replies another. "One would probably have to go back to her grandfather to find an identity that really made an impression...
Modern mankind is Mrs. Chirk. That is the thesis which British Novelist Nigel Dennis, a contributing editor of TIME brilliantly defends in one of the funniest most penetrating novels since the early Aldous Huxley. Once upon a time (perhaps in grandfather's day), says Author Dennis in effect, a man's Self was his castle. There might be an occasional siege of sin, and the drawbridge to the outer world might get tangled in confusion, but the Self itself stood fast. It was kept in place (like Bishop Berkeley's tree in the quad...
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