Word: contentedness
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Improving the Australian economy was hardly a major aim in the life of John L. Lewis, but that is just what he did. In 1954, with their antiquated industry slumping badly, Australian coalmine owners and union leaders journeyed to the U.S. in search of a solution. Naturally, they dropped in...
That might be a bit harsh. Yet in a campaign without any real issues, the most either man could promise was more, more, more to a prosperously contented nation that is already getting more every day-and expects it as a matter of course. Even the huge wheat sales to...
Sir Michael Blundell, a busky-cheeked pioneer who came out to Kenya 40 years ago with only a shotgun on his back, was ready to retire to England just a year ago. After a disappointing political comedown following uhuru, he felt the country did not need him. Now he plans...
Divorced. Byron Janis, 37, virtuoso U.S. concert pianist; by June Dickson-Wright, 33, daughter of British Surgeon Arthur Dickson-Wright; on grounds of incompatibility; after eleven years of marriage, one child; in Juarez, Mexico. Died. Shirley Jackson, 45, master of seance fiction, author of The Lottery, chilling tale of a...
And so it goes. The old bourgeois-baiter composes a contented ode to his new kitchen and a hymn to hot baths, a worried incantation against insomnia and some earnest lines on the higher significance of regularity. It is both absurd and touching to see the aging lion mew so...