Word: descent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...TIME Correspondent William Weber Johnson tells it in a biography called Kelly Blue, published last week (Doubleday; $3.95.), Kelly was a rambler, a restless fiddlefoot who never stopped traveling until he was too old to roam. The son of a blacksmith of Irish descent, he was born in Ohio, lived in Iowa, Michigan and Pennsylvania before he was 16, and wandered West from New Jersey. As he himself admitted, he was always "too quick to take a notion and too quick to get charmed up" about somewhere else...
...turbine-powered Air Force choppers arrived from Reno, Nev., but by that time, seasonal turbulence and storm clouds began to form. As the weather closed in, a ten-man rescue party reached the remaining six members of the stranded company, and they all began the painful descent to the 10,200-ft. base, where the Air Force had dropped a twelve-day supply of food and equipment. In the storm, the rescued and their striving saviors waited, walled in by the white, the cold and the merciless wind in the forbidding heart of the forbidding mountain...
...three-page questionnaire, scaled on the basis of "points" (highest score: 100), grades would-be home owners on such qualities as descent, way of life (American?), occupation (Typical of his own race?), swarthiness (Very? Medium? Slightly? Not at all?), accent (Pronounced? Medium? Slight? None?), name (Typically American?), repute, education, dress (Neat or slovenly? Conservative or flashy?), status of occupation (sufficient eminence may offset poor grades in other respects). Religion is not scored, but weighed in the balance by a three-man Grosse Pointe screening committee. All prospects are handicapped on an ethnic and racial basis: Jews, for example, must score...
...chosen, Philip Evergood could have lived a perfectly respectable life. His father, an artist named Blashki, was an Australian Jew of Polish descent who emigrated to the US but his mother was a member of a well-to-do Anglican family who was determined to have a son educated in her native England. son educated in her native England. When Philip failed to get past the Committee of Admirals for entrance into for entrance into the Naval Trainging College at Osborner, his father fired an angry letter to First Lord of the Admiralty, Winston Churchill, demanding to know whether...
...Good Light, by Karl Bjarnhof. Finding words for the things that are too terrible for words, the author writes a moving, fictionalized chronicle of his descent into blindness...