Word: fume
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Britain's Lord Home must never fume, even if people pronounce his name to rhyme with gnome instead of plume. He is, after all, Her Majesty's Foreign Secretary, the model of a modern diplomat, discreeter than Nikita, never brusque with Rusk. But the other night Lord Home may have wanted to fume, or at least show a bit of honest gloom...
...course Boroff's comments neglect the personal agony of involvement, an agony which Jonathan Kozol in The Fume of Poppies, and Brodkey in "Sentimental Education", deal with at length...
...each story of a Harvard-Radcliffe romance the couple has its own place for making love. In "Sentimental Education" it is Elgin's room. In The Fume of Poppies it is first an apartment in Cambridge, and later it is hotel rooms and beaches throughout Europe. In "Winter Term", a short story by Sallie Bingham, it is the back seats of cars. In each case the nature of the love nest reflects the tone of the romance: the first a college affair, the second an epic romance, the third a grasping routine...
...McNamara's request, the Joint Chiefs of Staff last winter began studying the problems of an air-ground merger, gave their enthusiastic approval in a 1¼-in.-thick document stamped top secret. On other projects, the Joint Chiefs have made McNamara and President Kennedy fume with shoddy staff work, but this time their study held up under criticism, was put into effect with few changes...