Word: containing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...transmuting homely details into talismans of the beyond. An ordinary object like the stone in The Iron Stone evokes a vision of Atlantis, of a divine jester called "Sir Primalform Magnifico," of "forests and centaurs and gods of the night." The meandering songs, some of them 25 minutes long, contain dreamlike cascades of cryptic imagery, as in Ducks on a Pond...
Other ventures are more down to earth. Pillsbury has gone into the broiler field (cutup chickens), and has begun to market dehydrated cake mixes. Unlike the conventional powdered mixes, they contain all the necessary ingredients thoroughly mixed into a "batter," and the lovin' housewife has only to add water and eggs. Last year the company acquired the nationally franchised chain of Burger King diners. That move capitalized on a number of trends: the nation's increasing mobility and affluence, the fast growth of roadside restaurants and the rapid expansion of franchising. Pillsbury estimates that Americans spend $22 billion...
...spectacular gathering of intellectuals from 28 countries probably didn't teach anyone enough to justify the expense of putting it together, but for the uninitiated, it did contain a valuable lesson in one little known art: conferencemanship...
...novels that had as its unlikely hero Lanny Budd, a wealthy young American art dealer who wangles a secretary's job at the 1919 Paris peace conference and manages to find a front-row seat at nearly every historic event from then through 1949. The Lanny Budd novels contain in simple form a fictionalized, you-are-there chronicle of the 20th century. Dragon's Teeth (1942), third in the series, describes the rise of Hitler and won Sinclair a Pulitzer Prize...
...Bishop has written a 713-page anticlimax. It does not contain the massive flaw of William Manchester's The Death of a President-namely, a distaste for Lyndon Johnson's necessary assumption of power. But neither does it boast the cogency of the Manchester book, the pertinent details-nor even the drama. As for style, it simply clogs the mind. Concerning Kennedy's arrival in Dallas, for example, Bishop writes: "This multiphrenic city sitting alone on a hot prairie like an oasis spouting a fountain of silver coins gave its elixir to John F. Kennedy...