Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mackesey used a serious, simple approach, citing the advantages of football and accusing Thompson of "seeking headlines and looking at education with one eye." The intelligentsia in the audience waited its turn, then took over the question period with sedate challenges to the director of athletics. Mackesey handled several of them with terse quips, like "I don't see any football players wearing halos," in answer to a question about the alleged sanctity of Brown football...
...when, several years ago, Dr. Bergen Evans proved to people that Shakespeare could be fun (or, more accufately, that you could divert people by telling them Shakespeare is fun), the unlimited variations of his theme became apparent. Professors began to restrict their bitter little jokes, and perhaps with an eye to a later surrender, conceded that the medium's effects on the populace was worthy of social study...
Several qualities combine to make Bad Boy Behan's book a pleasant exception in the usually dreary field of schoolboy or prison reminiscence. He has Gabriel's own gift of the gab, a cold eye for himself, a warm heart for others, and the narrative speed of a tinker. On the whole, he also makes good his claim to "a sense of humour that would nearly cause me to burst out laughing at my own funeral, providing...
...under the weight of inhuman detail." A mining engineer's efforts to make sense out of the remote mountains of North Africa, to lint his murdered predecessor with a mortall) wounded Arab girl, may add up to a novel but not when surveyed with Ollier's eye for engineering detail. Consensus: the prize went to an incorruptible theorist rather than a gifted writer...
...more ambitious - it lasts an hour - of the private-eye jobs. With Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Edward Burnes...