Word: coating
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cold-limbed ballet-girls waiting in the wings." There is the unflinching refusal to sacrifice art to the urgencies of politics: "Time for Sebastian was never 1914 or 1920 or 1936-it was always year 1." There is the verbal clowning, e.g., "optimystics," "sexaphone." Wit and humor often sugar-coat horror in Nabokov's novels, but the poignance of exile haunts his pages like a vestigial memory of original sin. From Sebastian Knight to Lolita, Nabokov has sprung ever more fascinating trap doors, and his ambiguous hell, like Sartre's, has no exit...
...ever in America," found themselves with protocol-sized problems-Harriman with a reception in his Manhattan apartment, Mrs. R. with a tour of the F.D.R. home at Hyde Park. Khrush's favorite U.S. farmer, Roswell Garst of Coon Rapids, Iowa, placated photographers by trying on a coat given him by Khrushchev in Moscow last March, finally decided to turn his planned small country luncheon for the Khrushchev party over to a Des Moines caterer. Most overtaxed solo performer of all: U.N. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., assigned by the President to be Khrushchev's official host, ready...
...white feather hat and a gleaming brocade coat, Britain's Dame Edith Sitwell, 72, gave a poetry recital at Edinburgh. Part of the audience could not make out what she was saying; someone politely said so. "Get a hearing aid." said Dame Edith, "I am not going to shout." Someone else complained that her notes were obscuring her face. "You won't like it if you do see it," she promised. Who did she think she was? "The reason I am thought eccentric is that I won't be taught my job by a lot of pipsqueaks...
Alexander Colder, 61, made sculpture move. Thirty-one years ago, in Paris, he started stringing cards of various colors on a coat-hanger form and let them dangle and twirl. Finally, Calder settled on free forms, flying leaflike on the ends of metal branches strung from wire. "Mobiles" were born, and their cheerful bobbing and spinning helped many an observer find and appreciate other motions in nature. To turn from a pond or a tree tossing in the wind to look at an outdoor Calder, and then back again, can be one of the most rewarding experiences in modern...
...wear the arctic fox you have to kill it. Wear qiviut-the underwool of the arctic ox-pulled off it like a sweater,' your coat is warm; your conscience, better...