Word: everyman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Happy Birthday" is an epigrammatic field day for novelist Anita Loos. Like Saroyan's "Time of Your Life," the setting is a saloon: the Jersey Mecca Cocktail Bar in Newark. Across the stage passes a steady procession of Everyman inebriate--the abortionist and his clients, the cop and his yeggs, the tarts, the footloose old maids, and the young businessman out on the make. Joining in the merry-making--by cautious degrees, to be sure--is Addie Bemis, librarian, who swills three "Pink Ladies" and throws repression to the winds. It's the happy Birthday of her life...
Biggest visiting celebrity of the season so far was tall, blonde Helene Thimig Reinhardt, who traveled from New York to play her old role of Faith in the English morality play Everyman, originally staged in Salzburg by her late, great husband, Max Reinhardt. Yet to appear: Conductor John Barbirolli, Yehudi Menuhin and Grace Moore. Conspicuously absent was Austria's No. 1 conductor, arrogant 37-year-old Herbert von Karajan, a Salzburg boy who made good in Germany under the sponsorship of Hermann Göring. The Allied Council in Vienna turned him down at the last minute...
Died. Ernest Rhys (rhymes with lease), 86, bewhiskered British poet and essayist, creator of the famed Everyman's Library, which gave the common man cheap editions of Homer, Aristotle, Mark Twain and some 500 other authors; in London...
...liberation, Existentialism had called forth more words and more ink than any intellectual movement since Dadaism ushered in Europe's "lost generation" after World War I. Existentialism has its long-haired snobbish fringe, the butt of short-haired cartoonists (see cut). But the word has filtered down to everyman's and everywoman's level...
...Everyman. Listening tothe people talk, the pollsters found awe, fear, cynicism, confusion, hope-but mostly confused fear and hopeful confusion. They found a substantial minority expectation that atomic experiments will end the world some day, a vague majority confidence that somehow everything would work out and that man would somehow be better off in the long...