Word: contentively
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...article, a masterpiece of editorial journalism both in content and depth of achievement, paints a colorful articulation, a true and honest portrait of the American Jew. It is positive, yet critical. As a matter of fact, you too have captured the Jewish quality that you so aptly summarized in the last paragraph: ". . . it is sharp humor, often directed at oneself...
Anouilh, like Shaw, tends to become a prisoner of his own brilliance; audiences leave some of his conversation-plays so impressed by the wit that they are oblivious to the thought content...
...memoirs" that he claims Villa would have written if Villa had not been illiterate. Reconstructing the old bandit's speech habits may have been an amusing intellectual exercise for Guzmán, but it does not come off very well. In translation, it sounds like bad Hemingway. In content, it ignores the broad historical background necessary to relate Villa's actions to the progress of the revolution, is stuffed with too many meaningless names and unidentified locations. Even so, it is a frequently fascinating and probably fairly accurate insight into the most controversial character of the Mexican Revolution...
...less consistent. Last month, when 4,000 spectators gathered in Narragansett for the New England championships, the sea was so still a Coast Guard cutter had to ply back and forth to make it a contest. But Eastern addicts are still getting their surf legs and seem quite content with the three-and four-footers found along most of the coast. A few weekends ago, when the rollers at Narragansett rose to California size (six feet), not a surfer braved the waves. Explained one neophyte: "If you don't know what you're doing, six-footers...
Benefit & Bane. Even more dramatic are the contributions fungi have made to science and medicine. Yeasts' high content of vitamins makes them effective against beriberi and pellagra. Ergot, derived from fungus-infected grain, speeds labor in childbirth, helps control bleeding. A common red bread mold has vastly facilitated research on deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), which governs heredity and holds the secret of life...