Word: en
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...footloose Publisher Parrish spends little time enjoying his new $175,000 home in northwest Washington, finds it more rewarding to write his chatty fortnightly column. "En Route," from all points of the compass. "I was looking at myself the other day." said he. "I was wearing an English hat and shoes, a Peruvian shirt, an Italian tie, and a topcoat I bought in Hong Kong. That can only happen to you in the air age. I've got only one problem-a small one. I'm the only man in the U.S. who has to ask his wife...
...novels (Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable) written in French and published in France between 1951 and 1953. In Molloy, published in the U.S. last year, the hero is a cripple who tries to cross a forest to get home to his mother and has some scabrous sexual encounters en route. Malone is headed for a more universal home, the grave. Indeed, all that can be said with certainty about the plot of Malone Dies is that Malone does...
...venerable and properly famous New England leaf will reach its teleological end this weekend as it matures into fully accredited autumnal foliage. Photographers, scientists, artists, and people will turn out en masse to view its many colored, translucent success...
...normal intimacy and familiarity in cooperatives in most apparent in the small parties and dinners that they are able to give. Square dances, Hallowe'en parties...
Roadside Telegrams. Motorists en route from Paris to Nice. Bordeaux or Calais can receive messages by means of huge billboards put up by Esso service stations. Telegrams are addressed to "Autogramme Paris," delivered to the highway safety division of the French Touring Club, which, in turn, relays messages to appropriate Esso stations for posting along the route. The motorist then sees his name and license number on a billboard, stops at the next station to pick up his message...