Word: fellowe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...says an executive of General Motors-Holden's, the G.M. subsidiary that makes 50% of Australia's vehicles. Half of the country's steelworkers and almost two-thirds of the workers on the billion dollar Snowy Mountains hydroelectric irrigation complex in New South Wales are, as fellow union members call them, "new blokes." Although some have slowed their work to the notorious prewar "Australian crawl," the overall impact of ambitious immigrants has been to force the Old Australians to hump harder. Eager, gifted immigrant children are grabbing top honors in Melbourne and Adelaide high schools. In Queensland...
...contractors do it now and charge it to next year?" At 1:30 he ate a big lunch with his wife Sara and daughters Marcia and Maristela, then flew off to Sao Paulo to inaugurate a new Willys gear and axle plant and attend a banquet of fellow physicians...
Cross-fertilization sometimes works so well that it proves distracting. Psychologist Charles Osgood of the University of Illinois came to write a book on language behavior, wound up studying Hopi Indians at the edge of the Grand Canyon. But the usual effect is heady reappraisal. One famed fellow recalls that his pre-Casbah world had shriveled to six friends with the same opinion. At his first Casbah meal, he was plumped down with a sociologist, a historian and a literary critic. "That first luncheon," he said, "was like opening windows in a stuffy room." Equally impressive is Yale Neurosurgeon Karl...
...Music by David Tudor; Folkways, 2 LPs). In a search for a "new aspect of form," Composer Cage has glued 90 spasmodically rhythmic anecdotes (on such random subjects as a mushroom exhibition in Paris, a bridge-playing composer in "the loony bin") to the piano and electronic music of Fellow-Composer Tudor. The result is new, all right, and even engaging in spots, but for the most part it will remind the first listeners of a dyspeptic after dinner speaker talking through an electrical storm into a TV set with a faulty tube...
Nabokov's ultimate and realistic irony is to make the executioner, who is at first passed off as just another fellow prisoner, into a garrulous, sentimental clown. As the axman prattles on about being not some "unfamiliar terrible somebody, but a tender friend," Author Nabokov develops the memorable conceit that the rite of execution is both a public festival and a black sacrament, in which victim and executioner are as intimately linked as bride and groom...