Word: climber
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Elisabeth, a smug and righteous climber, happened to be visiting her brother Friedrich when he fell in with Richard Wagner. Before long Friedrich was telling Wagner to his outraged face that he thought Bizet's operas better ("Bizet's music does not sweat," explained Nietzsche). But his dumpy little sister fell hard for the antiSemitic, Valhalla-first rantings that her brother Friedrich dismissed as Wagnerian idiosyncrasies. She took up with a Wagnerian camp follower named Bernhard Forster, who organized Germany's first anti-Jewish mass meetings and rounded up 267,000 signatures for his appeal to Bismarck...
Last week the High Court sat again for what was probably the last trial of a top Vichy official. The accused: Jacques Guérard, once a brilliant young climber in French bureaucracy, who became Traitor Laval's righthand man, served as his secretary-general from 1942-44. He escaped to Spain ahead of the Allied armies, was condemned to death in absentia. Three years ago he surrendered voluntarily to stand trial for treason. This time the High Court judges were calm, judicially correct members of the French Parliament. Charged with negotiating a German mission in Dakar, and with...
August. In another copyrighted article, James Reston will announce that John F. Kennedy is a social climber. An enraged Joseph Kennedy, John's father, will begin financial manipulations to buy society, on a nation-wide level. In Boston itself, residents of the Beacon Hill area will refuse to support the City's ailing urban renewal program. A spokesman will say, "We don't even know those people." The Cambridge police will break into the Lampoon building after receiving a cryptic message about a hostage. They will discover someone called April Olrich. A Lampoon spokesman will say, "It's the funniest...
...along on his Grand Pilastre attempt, Bonatti picked Toni Gobbi, a wiry, middle-aging former lawyer who long ago chucked his law career to become a master ice climber. By evening of the first day they had reached a 10,725-ft. jump-off site, went to sleep directly below the enormous wall of Grand Pilastre. Recalled Bonatti: "It looked bad. Our legs shook a little...
...Boston's famed Heart Specialist Paul Dudley White, 70, an energetic mountain climber, wood splitter, bicycle rider and whale hunter (to take their pulses), welcomed a snowstorm to help demonstrate one of his favorite maxims: "Hard work never killed a healthy man." Unpuffingly shoveling snow piled behind his Beacon Street office, Dr. White advised all healthy folks to take exercise in keeping with their age and general physical tone, build up to exertion slowly if they're soft, certainly not refrain from snow shoveling if their only ailment is just being 70. Said the doctor with some concern...