Word: fitness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...characters were "anthropoids," that those of Dos Passes were "diminished marionettes." He cham pioned Pareto, James Farrell and Robert Frost, denounced Van Wyck Brooks, Thomas Wolfe and practically everyone else. Of modern Western women he said: "I should like to call them buxom, deep-breasted, strong-thewed, fit to be mates and mothers of big men. Mathematics forbids; too high a percentage of them are just fat. They must be the bulwark of the corset industry...
...pasha Hadj Thami el Glaoui joined with French colonials to drive the Sultan of Morocco into exile two years ago. "You dog!" the Sultan hissed helplessly. But last week the Sultan, newly returned to power, had his revenge, in a scene fit for A Thousand and One Nights...
...everyone-rich and poor, strong and weak, white and black. The vast majority of Holmes County people are not rednecks who look with favor on the abuse of people because their skins are black. Byrd has violated every concept of justice, decency and right. He is not fit to occupy [his] office...
...singer who manages to put the imprint of his own personality on the songs he sings. Nonetheless, it is sometimes disturbing to watch the curious expressions on the faces of even these popular singers as they grope for the right note and also try to arrange their features to" fit the varying emotions of a foolish lyric...
Among readers who fancy vampires, succubi, werewolves and other monsters, a young (35) Californian named Ray Bradbury is regarded as the arrived monster-monger, fit replacement for August Derleth, eldritch statesman of the well-informed witchlover. Author Bradbury may owe even more to John Collier, another veteran djinn-and-bitters addict. Like Mary Wollstonecraft (Frankenstein) Shelley and Bram (Dracula) Stoker, these writers appeal to the middle or relatively uncorrugated brow, rather than the highbrow, who finds more than enough to bite his nails over in the Age of Anxiety without faking up a little more. The highbrow, in fact, whose...