Word: doctorate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Face in the Crowd (Newtown; Warner) is the sort of cure that almost makes the disease desirable, even when the disease is as painful as the commercial phoniness that currently afflicts some parts of U.S. culture. The doctor in this case is Elia Kazan, a well-known specialist in social disorders who made On the Waterfront and Baby Doll and has directed three of Tennessee Williams' plays. Unhappily Kazan does not seem to know the first thing about a satiric operation. As Lady Mary Wortley Montagu explained the technique: "Satire should, like a polished razor keen/ Wound with...
Black issues an edict: the illegal O, whether upper or lower case, must vanish from the language. Doctor becomes dctr, books are bks, clockshop, clckshp; saying cockadoodledoo aloud would be tantamount to fomenting rebellion. The docile natives of Ooroo, now renamed "R," try hard to talk the new gibberish. A by tells a girl she sings like a chir of riles, and gets slapped. Lads studying Igic at schl recite: "Mist is always mist, but what is mist isn't always mist.'' Peple can n Inger tell rot from root. Babies make as much sense as their...
Colonel Sinnott, beardless, is depicted in the painting as the youngest of the three escort horsemen in the background. The colonel was riding next to the general when Jackson was accidentally shot, and was the one who went for the doctor...
...wizened and cross-eyed tribal witch doctor named Parserion arap Manyei, this official encouragement seemed a fine opportunity to settle some old scores. Twice exiled for anti-British activity, Manyei had hated the whites ever since his father was killed in the uprising at the turn of the century. Watching his fellow tribesmen turn out new arrows in the Mau Mau emergency, he envisioned a new and bloodier revolt with himself as the chief merchant of death, arid urged his tribal brothers on with their work...
...rebellion was now at an end, but a British district officer, passing through Nandi territory recently, noted that the tribesmen were still making arrows. The witch doctor was arrested. As he was hauled to jail, mooning all the while over a withered setiot blossom (the symbol of virility among the Nandi), the remaining Nandi meekly and with some relief surrendered their stock of nearly 15,000 newly made bows and arrows. "We had to do as the witch doctor said," one explained apologetically, "otherwise he would have bewitched our children...