Word: freak
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Porter critics, especially among businessmen who profess not to read her, apparently hold the view of Britain's renowned 18th century lexicographer and epigrammatist, Dr. Samuel Johnson, who felt that women ought to know better than to invade a male province and could only succeed there as a freak. "Sir," said Johnson, "a woman preaching is like a dog's walking on his hind legs. It is not done well, but you are surprised to find it done...
Discarding one theory after another, the experts finally were forced to the conclusion that no chemical had been used to induce mummification; rather, by a "freak of chance," warm air from below the floor, flowing through cracks in the door and out a trap door at the top of the closet, had stopped the normal decay of flesh a few days after death. What was the cause of death? Looking close, Dr. Evans spotted traces of fabric embedded in grooves around the neck. It was the remnant of a length of woman's stocking...
...What story there is turns on a young English soldier held as a hostage in a Dublin brothel against the Belfast hanging of an Irish patriot. Under Joan Littlewood's brilliant direction, this proves story enough to provide a real center of feeling among all the vaudeville tricks, freak-show tactics, music-hall gags and ditties that stuff out the evening. As the whores and queers and strangies cavort, as irreverent lyrics make butts of everything, as wisecracks tumble out brightly ("The worst thing about jail is the other Irish patriots who are in along with you") or breezy...
...read 2,500 words a minute-ten times the average American's reading rate -is almost to qualify someone as a freak or a genius. Last week, at the new Reading Dynamics Institute in Washington, D.C., one pert college girl chewed up a sociology textbook at the rate of 14,000 w.p.m. Other students, from lawyers to Senators, mined such lodes of logorrhea as Anthony Adverse in less than two hours. What's more, they developed almost total recall: the whole point was comprehension. Washington has seen nothing like it since the days when Teddy Roosevelt read three...
Last week California was smarting under its first defeat in 26 games, suffered at the hands of Southern California (65-57). But by a freak of scheduling, it had a chance to avenge the loss only two days later. In the second game, California scored only three more points than it had in the first game. But exhorted by Newell, its defense held the same Southern California team to 45 points, resulted in a 60-45 victory...