Word: fixit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Unfortunately, Dr. Farnsworth is not doing this. His vapid sentences are not filled with specialized terminology but with the overworked nothing-words of the contemporary Mr. Fixit. They do not embody insights which can only be expressed in technical terminology, but rather obscure insights which any intelligent educator already...
...Fixit. "This here runaround" is a phrase instantly recognizable to hundreds of thousands of frustrated U.S. householders-and so is the "they." "They," in the moment of supreme exasperation that coincides with the collapse of an electric dryer on washday, is the apparently easy going, unhurried individual who is striving manfully to maintain the plumbing in the nation's 28 million homes, the wrench-wielding mechanic who administers to the health of the nation's 50 million autos, its 15 million power lawnmowers, its 375 million electric appliances. "They" is the U.S. Repairman in all his disguises...
...recital of domestic triumphs and defeats. The plumber who forgets his tools is legendary; now, says one pained Washington housewife with murder on her mind, "he just rides around in that white Thunderbird and never even comes." The counterplay comes from the housewife who has discovered a reliable Mr. Fixit, a possession as chic today as the little dressmaker who could copy the latest Paris fashions. Whether villain or hero, the repairman is indispensable; he dominates a vast area of dripping faucets, faulty percolators and a host of unanswered telephone calls for help-and all because the moneyed U.S. public...
...John Foster Dullnik, curly-haired Pianist Loverboy-nik. As Chester (Dick Tracy) Gould well knows from the strip-within-a-strip Fearless Fosdick, Capp is not even (gasp!) a respecter of funny-paper characters. But last week, while readers watched Capp spoof Cartoonist Allen Saunders' lovable, motherly missus-fixit Mary Worth as a nasty, interfering old harpy named Mary Worm, the worm turned: Capp himself emerged in Mary Worth drawn as a swinish (ugh!), detestable cartoonist named Hal Rapp...
Barbara Anne Miller '59 won the top James Bryant Conant Prize for her Nat Sci essay entitled "Solem Fixit, Movit Terram." Second prize went to Mary Mitchell Jones '60 for an essay entitled, "The Theory of Verifiability...