Word: diversionism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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A favorite diversion of amateur astronomers is to watch the moon eclipsing a star. When the star touches the moon's jagged edge, it winks out all at once with no preliminaries. Even the delicate instruments of professional astronomers cannot detect the slightest trace of dimming or wavering. But...
Jubilee dates from Radcliffe might have proved somewhat persnickety that year, since they felt they had come of age: the 'Cliffe was about to celebrate its fiftieth anniversary. The Edgeworth Tobacco Company, realizing that this attitude was indicative of national womanhood, kept cheering up Harvard men by telling them that...
¶Halting all future production of nuclear material for arms, with a pledge to begin gradual diversion of nuclear stockpiles to peaceful uses-possibly through the yet-to-be-ratified International Atomic Energy Agency.
But despite the skill, it is hard to see why anybody should care an iota what happens to Fuller's hero. Life may mean nothing, positive values may be ephemeral dreams, and happiness may be best symbolized by the orgasm, but these are attitudes which at this late date make...
This four-character play, thinly disguised as a novel, tells the story of a prodigal but unpenitent son. Charlie Morrow, a low man on the Madison Avenue totem pole, who has "always been so ready to be rich," drives up to Connecticut in a mortgaged Cadillac to hear the reading...