Word: christe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Would it work? Barnard stepped back and ordered electrodes placed on each side of the heart and the current (25 watt-seconds) applied. The heart leaped at the shock and began a swift beat. Dr. Barnard's heart leaped too. Through his mask, he exclaimed unprofessionally but pardonably, "Christ, it's going to work!" Work...
Pantagleize is a fool in Christ, one of nature's eternal innocents. Played with gently preoccupied detachment by Ellis Rabb, an elongated matchstick of a man, Pantagleize casually scratches himself against the world and sets it flaming. It all happens quite inadvertently. He wakes up on his 40th birthday and wonders what his destiny is, or if his destiny is to have no destiny. "What a lovely day," he says, and his destiny begins. The words turn out to be the secret code for starting a revolution...
...effort varies wildly in scope and purpose, from Detroit's Central United Church of Christ, which worships a Black Messiah, to New York City's National Economic Growth and Reconstruction Organization (NEGRO), which has raised enough money selling bonds-for as little as 25? each-to acquire a hospital, a chemical firm, four clothing factories, a construction company, and a transportation line so expansion-minded that it recently sent a fleet of twelve buses across the country to Watts, the Negro district of Los Angeles. Bad weather and other difficulties reduced the arriving field to three, but further...
...ideal preparation for a business career. Some are so inexperienced in the ways of the world that they show up for job interviews wearing sports shirts. A few are alcoholics. Many suffer from psychological problems-ranging from what they dub a "Judas complex" (a fear that they have betrayed Christ) to sexual hang-ups over celibacy† to lack of confidence. As a result, some ex-priests end up in jobs far below their intellectual capacities. Several former clerics now drive taxis for a living...
...like most De Vries heroes, is a wit who can't get with it-it being the way of the world. Nothing really odd about him, though he does remark that "Christ and the Jews of his time were working at cross purposes." Joe wants to do good, and he tries. But the girl he kept in stitches as a suitor soon gagged on his wit as a wife. When her father took him into his brokerage office, watching the tape made him physically dizzy, and the securities he recommended for widows and orphans soon became known as "laughing...