Word: falconer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Also, if newshen is supposed to be female for newshawk-well, you should call the fellow in charge of hawks at the Museum of Natural History. He says . . . the word falcon once was the English term for the female hawk. However, falconry now covers a family of hunting hawks, and a female hawk is simply called a female hawk. So futurely, if male reporters are to be known in TIME as newshawks, let's refer to the opposite species as female newshawks...
...Texas and a quiet weekend at the 15,000-acre ranch of Democratic Governor Allan Shivers. This week he continued his southward journey into Mexico. Crossing the Rio Grande at Laredo, he met Mexico's President Adolfo Ruiz Cortines, and with him dedicated the $50 million international Falcon Dam, a five-mile-long earth and rock-fill barrier, that will bring irrigation and flood control to both sides of the Rio Grande and electricity to light up the border towns. Before the dedication, both Presidents watched a fiesta in the dam-born village of Nuevo Guerrero, and toasted their...
There's a story about an elderly lady who want to see Hamlet for the first time. She liked it all right, except it was full of quotations. The Maltese falcon may seem like, that after a decade of imitations, but it's still one of the finest detective stories ever filmed...
Somehow Dashiel Hammett picked up the reputation of an ultra-realist. He's far from that. The very picture of a golden falcon, encrusted with jewels, sought by a group of incredible characters who roam the world searching for its is fairy tale material. The realism lies in Hammett's dialogue, his insistence upon accurate details. Hammett's detectives were never brilliant thinkers; Sam Spade is a tough monkey with a head as soft as the next guy's when it meets a flying blackjack or a loaded whiskey. Hammett's policemen aren't nice fellows, there is little romance...
Hammett's ideological stupidities have now made him persona non grata with State Department libraries, but the old master of the "Black Mask" magazine wrote some of the finest non political fairy tales before he vanished into obscurity: The Maltese Falcon is among his best. MICHAEL MACCOBY