Word: ducked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...come back, badly in need of a bath and reeking of blubber, the sealers will be able to make a few more dollars by selling flippers (up since the war from $1 a dozen to $1 apiece) to housewives for flipper pies. The flippers, which taste something like saltwater duck, are one of Newfoundland's national dishes...
Connolly knew that sooner or later, by accident or design, most highbrow "little mags" duck down some intellectual by path.* At its end is a trap: mixed up in parlor politics, or tripped up by literary politics, they spend their days tootling for whatever cause they are stuck with. To save his long-haired baby from that fate, Connolly kept its own horizon wide. He refused to embrace - or to exclude - any cultural point of view, held to a catholic determination to work both sides of civilization's broad thoroughfares...
...getting so that the Broadway critics scarcely had time to duck. Maxwell Anderson had socked them for their treatment of Truckline Café (TIME, March 11). This week Playwright Irwin Shaw, in a preface to the published version of his short-lived Assassin (Random House; $2), socked them harder...
...neighbor, an ex-professor of chemistry, egged on by a boozily mischievous advertising man, acts out a cruel, funny little fable of Good & Evil when he banishes the ducks he loves and sublimates the duck-killing turtles he abominates into a best-selling soup. "Turtle soup," chortles the adman, captioning a pallid portrait of a lady in crinolines, "saved the sweethearts and mothers of a proud and gallant race." Another neighbor, variously known as Blackburn, Malatesta and Swarzkopf, turns out to be the Devil, and delivers some of Author Wilson's most envenomed and heartfelt opinions (notably on Stalinism...
...getting so that the Broadway critics scarcely had time to duck. Maxwell Anderson had socked them for their treatment of Truckline Café (TIME, March 11). This week Playwright Irwin Shaw, in a preface to the published version of his short-lived Assassin (Random House; $2), socked them harder...