Word: compartmentalization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cussing & Calamity Janes. Braniff International tried to have it both ways, one day running a full-page "weight watcher's guide to Dallas" listing its low, medium-and high-calorie flights, the next day taking a two-page newspa per ad to boast about its gourmet delicacies plus special...
The sun, setting exclusively for the young Nabokov, "lent an ember to my bicycle bell." Ben, Dan, Sam and Ned, the "wan-faced, big-limbed, silent nitwits" encountered in the English grammars that he mastered before Russian, "now drift with a slow-motioned slouch across the remotest backdrop of my...
Former Harvard tutor Richard Tillinghast authored the last of the great poems, "Ascension Day: Waking on the Train." The narrative viewpoint is clouded, seemingly drifting between dream and drowsy waking. In the transitions, a county-fair balloon ascension becomes associated with an erection the narrator wakes up with: "The man...
The fire caught hundreds of the Oriskany's 3,400-man crew below deck. Worst hit was "officers' country" in the forecastle, where many men had not yet climbed out of their bunks. As the choking fumes billowed into their compartments, they tried to escape, only to be...
His short hairs are best ignored. His excursions into philosophy, all taken in Jean-Paul Sartre's second-class compartment, begin at the level of the college bull session and follow a descending route. "Coitus interruptus is evil," announces Mailer in the course of a Playboy magazine panel discussion...