Word: couching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...century's end, what had once been lively and original in Boston's thought became rigid and eccentric. The cradle of the American revolution gradually became the couch of gouty conservatism. "Its dominant mind," remarked Van Wyck Brooks, "was a dry seabeach where all the creatures of history had deposited their shells." And its last great thinker, Henry Adams, sadly noted that "Boston seemed to offer no market for educated labour...
When the sunlight ebbed from the courtyard, "the old master of the house decided that it was time to conduct the bridal pair to the nuptial chamber" - the bathhouse where "a long, wide couch" was strewn with dried lavender, violets and lilies of the valley...
...psychoanalyst's couch she rummages among her memories-but not very willingly and not very well. Her editor is more of a help when he confesses that he too was once a drunk, and can still barely hold off drinking. A member of Alcoholics Anonymous helps still more...
...than he once was, but likes to point to his midriff and say, "Look, no pancia.'" He can still bound up stairs two at a time, although he seldom does because, he says, people think it's undignified. Often before rehearsals he jumps up on an office couch, feet together, to test his legs. Before a recent performance, he jumped up & down trying to reach the ceiling, crying, "I am an old man. Why has God afflicted me with the blood of a 17-year-old?" He is continually on the go, sleeps only three or four hours...
...rejection slips anyway." The managing editor of Good Housekeeping advises, "If you write for your own amusement, you can be as dismal as you choose, but the public continues to prefer entertainment to morbidity . . . I often feel that if I come across one more trauma or psycho-analyst's couch in a manuscript, I will become a manic-depressive and scream...