Word: friendlys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Roger Revelle, "just how intolerable is 'intolerable.' " That question would apply to many aspects of modern life. In city after city in the U.S., strikes or slowdowns have closed schools, stopped garbage collection, endangered the public safety. The city itself sometimes seems more malignant enemy than hospitable friend. Looking at the sunset from a Los Angeles freeway-refracted through smog and windshield-Los Angeles Times Columnist Jack Smith wondered what a man from an earlier century might have felt if he had sat beside him in the automobile: "A rational man, like Dr. Johnson, must surely see that...
...impending donnybrook. Even Ambassador to France Sargent Shriver, a Maryland native, has been suggested as a possibility, but the Kennedy brother-in-law categorically disclaims interest. There are few Maryland Democrats who can honestly do the same. House Majority Leader Tom Lowe, for instance, is a close friend of Mandel's, but admits: "If Marvin falls on his face, he'll have a size-ten shoe-mine-between his shoulder blades...
ABOUT MIDWAY through Hot Millions, a friend turned to me and said, "This movie has such ugly men." She's probably right--Peter Ustinov, Karl Malden, Bob Newhart and Robert Morley no doubt are ugly by most people's standards--and that's typical of the nice moves that went into the making of Hot Millions...
Yale men were beginning to wonder what was wrong. All around them, men's and women's colleges and universities were going coed. But the Elis just could not find a partner. Yale even offered to go steady with its old friend Vassar-and was turned down. The frustrated students on the New Haven campus decided to take the initiative away from the university administration. They organized and carried out an exercise called "Coeducation Week...
...famous dedication of The Waste Land is "For Ezra Pound, il miglior fabbro," which even nonscholars of Italian can figure out to mean "the better craftsman." In this context, "craftsman" means "editor." It is well known that Eliot's great friend Poet Ezra Pound had been a severe editor who cajoled, bullied or advised Eliot to cut out half of what Pound described, with characteristically inaccurate flamboyance, "the longest poem in the English langwidge" (434 lines in the final version). A facsimile edition of Eliot's first draft, riddled with Pound's penciled comments, will be published...