Word: founded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Whom It May Concern. In Loogootee, Ind., Post Office employees opened an unsealed envelope with no address or stamp, found a message: "All my love forever, your old forgetful husband, Bing...
Mineral Deposit. In Dayton, after paying $15 for a C.O.D. package marked "fragile," Mrs. Dorothea Johnson found it contained a 10-lb. chunk of cement...
...went to a bar with her cousin Jacques, to whom she was tacitly engaged, and had a dry martini, after which she smashed a few cocktail glasses. Arm in arm with Jacques ("I marveled at this physical intimacy''), she lived it up till 2 a.m. ("I found myself tossing off a créme de menthe") and then reeled home to mother. Mama was up, and in tears. She feared, says Simone, "that Jacques had dishonored me." Short years before. Mama de Beauvoir had pinned together pages or whole chapters of books which she considered unseemly for proper...
...adult westerns, and scaling the roofs over the student dens, with the great intellect-trainer booming out Ol' Man River in a beery baritone. Here, felt Simone, was "the dream companion I had longed for since I was 15: he was the double in whom I found all my burning aspirations raised to the pitch of incandescence...
...quarter feminist. From the total order of Catholicism, she moved to the universe of total absurdity embodied in atheist existentialism. Even travel, which ought to have broadened her mind, merely served to harden her. Thus, thinking Communism good, she went to Red China (The Long March) and found it a paradise; thinking the U.S. bad, she found America, Day by Day a demihell. The purity fetish instilled by Mama de Beauvoir has given Simone's intellectual life unquestionable integrity, but it also makes every clash between the ideal and the actual an emotional crisis. At the bar of reality...