Word: clad
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...enjoying a vogue among intellectuals; it tells about a kind of tragic Sad Sack-an ordinary man named Joseph K. who is arrested, tried by a mysterious court for an unspecified crime, chivied by a cold, incomprehensible bureaucracy until he is finally led away by two black-clad agents and stabbed to death. This macabre theme of man tortured by forces he does not understand was successfully used by Alban Berg in Wozzeck and by Gian-Carlo Menotti in his more popular Consul. Salzburg first-nighters, remembering Von Einem's earlier, impressive opera, Danton's Death (TIME...
...Workshop. Kinsey's statistical laboratory is an unlikely spot: the basement of an old, ivy-clad brick building (which also houses the department of home economics) on the tree-shaded campus of Indiana University. The door is marked "Institute for Sex Research-Walk In." A summer visitor is met by a wave of well-chilled air, and the whole atmosphere is one of scientific frigor. There is nothing in sight as provocative as a Petty calendar; only ultra-modern steel desks, work tables, filing cabinets and posture chairs...
...nerves, and an R.A.F. doctor gave her sodium amytal as a sedative. Shortly after 9 o'clock, she went into the rooms where her two sons, Darryl John, 2½, and Edmund, 4, lay sleeping. Later, the wing commander and his wife found her standing in the bathroom, clad in a sarong, with her slashed wrists bleeding into the bathtub. "I have planned it a long time," said Mrs. Parsons. "If one of us went, the other would not live. I have killed my children. We loved him so much, and you know how much he loved...
...calm, black-clad sister described how a breakdown in health had forced her to give up the austerely cloistered life of the Carmelite Order. She had been granted a special authorization which gave her, because of ill health, the right to go out into the world without losing her religious status. Thus released from the strenuous Carmelite vows, Sister Madeleine entered the order of the Dominicans of Béthanie, in which she kept good standing while looking after the three Roquette-Buisson children. Said she: "The baron is fond of horses . . . He lives the life of a gentleman farmer...
...President and his party spent the night back on the yacht, which moved down the York River and anchored after he came aboard. Next day it slid into a dock at Norfolk, while white-clad sailors stood at attention on the flight decks of two flag-dressed aircraft carriers. Ike went ashore again, this time wearing a light, Truman-like Stetson hat to 1) confer with Admiral Lynde D. McCormick, commander of the North Atlantic Treaty naval forces, and 2) play golf at Sewells Point Golf Club, where he turned...