Word: couchings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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James G. Elaine, a Maine Republican, came to the speakership in 1869, when the House had again fallen into bedlam ways. With nearly 250 members crammed into a tiny chamber, the House was known as the "Bear Garden." When all else failed, Elaine flung himself on a couch behind his desk and suspended business until order was restored. Elaine strengthened the speakership with the ruling that a party was obliged to ratify the candidate chosen by the majority caucus-thus ending the chaos of intraparty and coalition candidacies (under the Constitution, the Speaker need not even be a member...
...riddle of the real Lawrence is a multiple-choice question, and Rattigan is entitled to his choice. What his play proves is that the nature of the hero resists the analyst's couch as it does dialectics or eugenics. Mystery is part of the substance, not the shadow, of genius...
...Book. Uncle Shelby is a 31-year-old bearded nut named Shel Silverstein, who draws satirical cartoons for Playboy and illustrates conventional books for children. His ABZ Book contains many interesting suggestions for idle little hands. Like D-is-for-Daddy: "See Daddy sleeping on the couch. See Daddy's hair. Daddy needs a haircut. Poor Daddy. Daddy has no money for a haircut. Daddy spends all his money to buy you toys and oatmeal. Poor Daddy cannot have a haircut. See the scissors . . . Poor poor poor poor Daddy...
...human children have been treated with more cautious care. Dressed by a team of tender technicians, the little chimpanzee was togged out in spotless diaper and nylon mesh space suit, then zippered into a fitted contour couch that looked like a cradle trimmed with electronics. After two hours of fussing, Enos. the 5½-year-old chimponaut, was ready to ride the first passenger-carrying orbital flight of U.S. Project Mercury. His cradle was fitted into a Mercury capsule on the nose of an Atlas rocket...
...capsule and rocket had separated, and Enos was over Zanzibar. The Zanzibar tracking station reported: "He hasn't missed a trick yet." Neither the acceleration of the roaring ascent nor weightlessness in orbit seemed to bother the meditative chimp. When colored lights appeared in little windows above his couch, he pressed the levers which, as he had been taught, would keep him from suffering mild electric shocks. Over Australia and over the Pacific, the lights appeared as scheduled, and Enos, performing properly, got no shocks. He was reported by Mexico at 11:34 and by Canaveral...