Word: featly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Memory Picture. Author Mitford's basic argument is that the cult of the prettied-up corpse, put on display in a ghoulish, make-believe sleep, is neither reverent nor religious, but a giant feat of merchandising. She has deadly fun with such astonishing specialists as the Practical Burial Footwear Company of Columbus, Ohio, which offer Fit-a-Fut oxfords (in patent, calf, tan or oxblood) and Ko-Zee, with its "soft, cushioned soles and warm, luxurious slipper comfort, but true shoe smartness." Courtesy Products has a "new Bra-form, Post Mortem Form Restoration . . . they accomplish so much...
...bitter factionalism within the ranks of the G.O.P. legislators. It took Scranton more than a month of hard-nosed, behind-the-scenes persuasion before the legislature passed a bill that raised the sales tax from 4% to 5%. Scranton can now lay claim to a balanced budget -a feat that had been considered impossible only a few months before...
...Gerard, which asserts the faith that a child has a better chance of being good than someone older who is already visited by corruption. Perhaps only someone known as a high-bellowing beatnik prose man, and thus a bit of a child himself, could have pulled off the unlikely feat of extorting tears for a dead child. The child is Gerard, doomed to sanctity in a New England tribe of boozing, brawling Canucks. He dies at nine, a neighborhood wonder, full of love for God, small animals and his mother. Kerouac's feeling is genuine, and the self-indulgent...
...total musication of America is by now almost complete. Muzak gets the credit for being the biggest noise maker of all, a feat that brings in $15,000,000 a year from its 30,000 subscribers. The soft comforting sounds that ooze from Muzak's speakers are heard each day by more than 60 million people-in hospitals and mortuaries, elevators and space capsules, prisons and jute mills. It even plays during all top secret conferences in the Pentagon, where its mission is to confound eavesdroppers by drowning out all the secret talk. If there is something faintly Chaplinesque...
Just as in both previous operations, the doctors put the transplanted kidney into the patient's flank. Nature's plumbing is so delicate and complex that the surgical feat of putting a transplanted kidney into its normal place in the human body would have been forbiddingly difficult. And the operation would have been so heroic that a patient as near death as Edith might not have survived...