Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Maclean's (circ. 516,587). came out with an editorial postmortem on the election results. "The mysterious and complicated and precious and precarious institution called democracy," argued fortnightly Maclean's, "once more has proved to be roughly as enthralling to the average voter as a case of fallen arches." Not until the second to last paragraph did the magazine reveal its own Achilles' heel. The doleful editorial had been written before election day, and was based on the assumption that the Liberal government would be reelected by a safe margin...
...Wyatt Earp (Burt Lancaster), the famous marshal of Dodge City; the other is Doc Holliday (Kirk Douglas), a dentist who is terribly fast on the draw. Wyatt saves Doc from a lynch mob. and that is the beginning of a beautiful friendship. Doc has been living with a fallen woman (Jo Van Fleet), but pretty soon he throws her back in the gutter and takes up with Earp instead. He follows Earp everywhere, reeking of whisky and gratitude, and twice saves his life from bushwhackers. "Ya done it again. Doc." says Marshal Earp. making a manly effort to control...
...June 4, 1942, and World War II in the Pacific was almost six months old. Pearl Harbor lay far behind, a symbol of heartbreaking disaster; Singapore had fallen, and so had Rangoon, and so had Corregidor. The U.S. fleet, though it had won a strategic edge, had been mauled, and the carrier Lexington sunk, in the Battle of the Coral Sea (May 4-8). Japan was threatening Australia, and her ships scouted with impunity around the Indian Ocean and Ceylon. The U.S., a long way yet from the glory days of island landings, had to latch...
...wife and I were not spoken to during the voyage by any other passenger," said he. "I got so desperate that I tried to horn in on a bridge game, but was repulsed. The players were all Americans too! If they had known who I was, they would have fallen all over themselves to be friends." The most friendly folks he met aboard the Mary: "The stewards and the waiters." ∙∙∙ On his promise to be a good boy, Italy's charm-loaded Movie Director Roberto Rossellini (TIME, May 27 et seq.) got a three-month extension...
...reform. With the momentous entrance in the '30s of Reinhold Niebuhr and neo-orthodoxy sin once again became real and personal for U.S. intellectuals-but in a new way. The moral or social emphasis was replaced by a psychological emphasis. Niebuhr saw the tension between man's fallen, finite nature and his transcendent nature producing anxiety. In other words, because of Original Sin man is anxious, and because he is anxious he sins. Thus Niebuhr diagnosed man as maladjusted in the universe...