Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Clive Staples) Lewis is a High Anglican Lorelei in the gown of a Cambridge don. The author of The Screwtape Letters lures not to shipwreck but salvation, and many a troubled 20th century secularist who came to scoff at Lewis' faith has fallen prey to his urbane style and good sense. Years ago, he was a highly troubled secularist himself ("I had tried everything in my own mind and body; as it were, asking myself, 'Is it this you want? Is it this?' "). Surprised by Joy is an autobiographical mirror held up to a questing soul...
...Fallen Angels (by Noel Coward) is 30 years old, and was far from robust when young. Fortunately, it has been given no orthodox revival: Noel Coward's limp play has been turned into Nancy Walker's gorgeous plaything. Actress Walker (On the Town, Phoenix '55) has become one of the theater's most wildly and continuously funny clowns, capable of rowdy hauteurs and of a stare that could blight fruit. To Coward's drawingroom yarn of two bored young wives who jointly, jealously, at length drunkenly await the arrival of a Frenchman they both sinned...
...Cold. In McGinnis' 21 months at the switch, passengers had been riding second-class. McGinnis blamed late schedules on last year's floods, but the timetable had fallen apart long before. When commuters protested McGinnis' $12 million slash in maintenance funds since 1953, McGinnis snapped: "I've given these politicians everything they asked for." In summer, when air conditioning broke down, McGinnis explained that the weather was "too hot." In winter, when diesel locomotives stalled because crews failed to drain condensation coils, he claimed that his engines were "freezing...
...Student riots have caused much damage and annoyance to the citizens of Cambridge in the past," Sullivan said, "but they seem to have fallen off of late. I don't know why; may be this new generation is a little more sober." Sullivan favors strict enforcement of liquor laws...
...Soviets begin to smile their way into Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. Even in the field of national defense, which should be the President's forte, recent criticisms have shown that not only may the U.S. have dangerously weakened its ground forces, but also that it may have fallen behind the Soviets in nuclear weapons...