Word: fitful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...appetite for color and form, for the picturesque and romantic at any price." By the hundreds, they fled the industrial turmoil and cracker-barrel esthetics of their native U.S. for the postcard châteaux and quaint peasantry of Europe. But Ohio farmers on McCormick reapers did not fit into pretty landscapes as nicely as Normans driving oxcarts; few artists returned able to apply lessons learned abroad to the U.S. scene. One who did was Frederick Childe Hassam, a robust Bostonian who translated impressionism from French into pragmatic American...
...white citizen born in Mississippi and raised in Georgia, I suppose I should tell my friends, "See, them damn niggers ain't fit for freedom." But I can't. Anyone with a shred of conscience cannot read your grippingly honest report without feeling, "There, but for the grace of white skin, go I." People so torn by desperation and racked by self-hatred, to a point where dignity no longer counts, need understanding...
Once in China, White was given two suits, an overcoat, four pairs of underwear, ties, and Russian-made shoes that didn't fit. He traveled first-class to Taiyuan, capital of Shansi Province, where he spent a year studying Chinese. Then he went to Peking, where he enrolled at the Chinese Peoples University, attended classes 18 hours a week and eventually was allowed to enter law school in September 1956. During his first year of law courses, White studied Hegel, Marx and Engels, later boned up on Leninist ideology, but was allowed to skip studies on Mao Tse-tung...
Though he looked fit and healthy in his fresh white uniform, gold-topped swagger stick and black Moslem cap, Sukarno had fallen ill twice during August, probably because of his chronic kidney trouble. During his recent trip to Europe, Viennese specialists urged an operation, but Sukarno is said to fear the scalpel, since his horoscope predicts that he will die by steel...
...Thoughts at Departure" by Dr. Maximillian Herzberger, a mathematician recently retired from Kodak. Dr. Herzberger delivers a heavy-handed sermon to explain that materialism is a bad thing, that fame alone is a bad thing, and that the respect of other people is a good thing. Such thoughts hardly fit into a magazine of "contemporary expression." We might tend to agree with them all, but the modern mind requires more than vague homilies...