Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although Emily Dickinson lived, in the words of Conrad Aiken, "a life perfectly devoid of outward event," there was one great mystery about her. To an even greater degree than was common among New England mystics, she was a recluse. This, according to the most popular, though by no means only, theory, was due to an early, unsuccessful love affair with a married man. Alison's House is based on this interpretation of Miss Dickinson's life, despite the fact that Alison Stanhope, the Emily Dickinson of the play, has been dead eighteen years by the time the play takes...
...Walter Trohan added another note. According to the Tribune, Chief Justice Warren in 1957 blackballed an invitation to Vice President Nixon from the American Bar Association to attend the celebrated London meeting at which more than 3,000 U.S. and British lawyers examined the basis of the common law (TIME, Aug. 5, 1957). Said Warren, according to the Tribune, to David Maxwell, then president of the A.B.A.: "If you let that fellow in, count me out." The A.B.A. board of governors studied the unusual situation, decided not to issue the invitation to the Vice President because it had already invited...
...chips were yielding about 3% last week, and some of the racy electronics and missile favorites were paying nothing at all. Meanwhile, back in the bond market, the tax-exempts were yielding a handsome 3.8%, while the highest-grade corporates also moved above 4½%. The yield spread between common stocks and bonds was uncommonly wide. Classically, the situation called for a move out of stocks and into bonds. But investors-wagering heavily on the economy's growth, figuring on more inflation and preferring capital gains to dividends-showed no signs of hopping off Wall Street's snorting...
...Kronenberger points out in his new translation of the Maxims (Random House; $3.50), La Rochefoucauld narrowed his vision. Indeed, some of the maxims are strangely naive and platitudinous, suggesting once again that cynicism is sentimentality in reverse-and that, perhaps, the sheltered courtier could have learned from the crude common sense of the peasant. Yet at his best, as Kronenberger puts it, "La Rochefoucauld, in his way, has peered quite as sharply as modern specialists in theirs, into a dark realm of tangled and unsightly motives. Again and again, [he] anticipated the Freudians." Some samples from an adroit translation...
...Lower Common Room of the Union will be used as the auditorium, with a platform stage constructed especially for this production...