Word: cool
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pepsi for Communists. East Germany, whose Stalinist warts long made it a wallflower in the eyes of Western businessmen, is being wooed by everyone from the torrid Latins to the cool Scandinavians. In the past two months it has signed new trade pacts with France, Denmark and Italy. France, in fact, is aiming to overtake West Germany as the biggest dealer with Communism. Two months ago, Finance Minister Valéry Giscard d'Estaing signed a treaty to double trade with Russia to $700 million over the next five years; next month he will talk to Bulgaria...
Eliot achieved some of his strongest effects by stringing together what seem to be banalities. But the banalities were chosen with such cool precision that they grew in the mind to be images of modern urban alienation. Then, typically, they were thrown into sudden contrast with images of romance and the glories of the past...
Lady, three white leopards sat under a juniper-tree In the cool of the day, having fed to satiety On my legs my heart my liver and that which had been contained In the hollow round of my skull...
...warm summer night on Chicago's South Side, half a dozen such strays congregate at Lou's Bar near the university to celebrate the 25th birthday of their good friend, a very cool young man named Daniel Conn. A little earlier, Conn had watched a nearby house burn down. Although one of his friends tried to rescue them, three old people were killed in the fire. A little later. Conn sees two friends try to halt a shooting spree by a trio of criminals. His friends are killed. One is a woman he loves...
Whipsawed between these episodes of mindless violence on one side and the affection and good talk of his friends on the other, Conn the cool observer is driven to the edge of despair-but also to a shocked knowledge of his unavoidable engagement with the world. Donohue tells his oddly appealing, existential fable with precision of place and style, in a tone as cool as his hero. It reverberates in the mind like a slow-motion movie of a man falling from a tall building: his plight is horrifyingly real, but so is the absurdity of his flailing struggle, frozen...