Word: frigid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Whether altogether frigid or partly immature, ruthlessly self-centered Josephine Perry is interesting to watch in a play that begins like another romp about a junior miss up to junior mischief, only to grow steadily more sober in tone. As Josephine, Lois Smith has the right looks and essential right talent, but works with too few and too showy gestures. And the storytelling is often unflexed and even languid. But along with entertainment value in its lighter moments, The Young and Beautiful has shock value and a pinch of substance...
Juan de Fuca Strait, a frigid, 18-mile channel that separates Vancouver Island from the state of Washington, challenges distance swimmers with the same fierce fascination that Mount Everest arouses in mountaineers. Since last April, when the Victoria Times offered $1,000 to the first swimmer to cross the strait, four men and three women have tried for the prize, have been defeated by the channel's fierce tides and unrelenting chop. Last week a barrel-shaped Tacoma logger named Bert Thomas, 29, slipped into the water at Port Angeles, Wash., swam through the night, and eleven hours...
...third generation has lost the lust for power but kept the impulse toward God. Young Haguenier, Herbert's son, is a moonstruck knight who has chosen to serve a frigid beauty and waits in vain for her to thaw. It is hard to believe that any man, saint or fool, would observe the for mal demands of chivalry and obey each of his lady's whims (such as entering a joust in which his only shield is a mirror that must not be damaged). But Haguenier fulfills all his "trials" until he is driven to drink and finally...
During most of 1954, that enthusiasm seemed decidedly premature. After several weeks of reflective silence, Moscow greeted the Eisenhower plan with the frigid statement that the Soviet Union could not even consider participating without a prior prohibition of all atomic weapons. With each reiteration of this standard Soviet demand, the possibility of genuine international cooperation on the plan seemed to dwindle a little more. As late as November 12, Soviet delegate Andrei Vishinsky told the United Nations that the Eisenhower plan means only that "those who thirst for substantial assistance would be given crumbs from the rich man's table...
...menopause, it "provides a setting for a climax of all the feelings a woman may have about her uterus . . . It is expected that at the 'change of life' she will become emotionally unstable, petulant, demanding, irascible . . . frigid; will 'lose her womanhood,' will become fat and unattractive, and in a final step in her dissolution will 'lose her mind...