Word: cool
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SQUARE'S PROGRESS, by Wilfrid Sheed. When his wife calls him a bore and leaves him, a nice, adjusted insurance salesman sets out to discover the Cool World. He learns that hips are duller than squares...
...rural eastern outbacks, pumping hands, signing autographs, trying out his fractured French, touring small stores and factories. Just before the last election, Diefenbaker was so unpopular in Quebec that there was real question whether he would be safe on a campaign swing through French Canada. But tempers cool, and now 1,200 citizens turned up in Ste. Perpétue (pop. 1,160) to cheer his campaign promises: abolition of the 11% sales tax on farm machinery, training schools for farmers, low-interest farm credit. Everywhere, he pecked away at the scandals singeing Mike Pearson's administration. "This government...
...became one of the best-selling jazz albums of all time. Winner of nearly every jazz popularity poll in the past two years, he recently moved into a 23-room, century-old mansion in Irvington, N.Y., with his wife and five children, this year expects to make a cool $250,000. Looking back, Stan Getz says: "It's been a struggle. You either get bitter from those things or you become compassionate. I went one way." It seems it was the best...
...seem to mind. In fact, rather than lose their charge and their communications, many never even leave the dock, preferring to remain permanently plugged in. Many just like to go down to their boats on a hot summer night, and sit on the stern deck for a quiet, cool drink and a chat with friends. Yacht clubs, which usually let visiting yachtsmen plug in free of charge, are not much happier. Said Ted Tolson, vice commodore of the St. Petersburg Yacht Club: "They hook up on our docks and blow all the fuses in the circuit. Then they holler like...
...Sheed, book editor and drama critic for Commonweal, continues the dissection of contemporary life that he began in The Hack. The book is overlong, as though Author Sheed feared that the reader would not easily take his point; and only its protagonist comes vividly to life. But in its cool compassion and amused impatience with self-deceit, it is a perceptive guidebook through the wilds of a modern marriage...