Word: fussed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Make a Fuss!" The most conspicuous case of stardom sickness recently befell Edouard Streltsov, darling of Moscow's soccer fans. When Edouard hit the big time in 1955 as center forward on the "Torpedo" team of the Moscow Likhachev (formerly Stalin) Auto Plant, he was a clear-eyed, husky youth of 17. But then his sporting instincts turned to women and wine...
...watching bullfights with him in Madrid, later flew down to Cuba for long hours of talk in Hemingway's Finca Vigia home, broken by long hours in a fishing boat with the old man and the sea. The resulting interview has a refreshing flavor matched against the pedantic fuss-budgetry of critics in rival quarterlies. Sample: "I always write on the principle of the iceberg. There is seven-eighths of it underwater for every part that shows. Anything you know, you can eliminate and it only strengthens your iceberg. If a writer omits something because he does not know...
Amid the usual postvictory fuss (Miss Colombia has only been kissed once, said her mother, and that was a chaste peck for a publicity still with "that actor"(Hugh O'Brian, TV's Wyatt Earp), those who had tentatively picked blondes tracked back to discover where things had gone wrong. A precrowning favorite was Miss U.S.A., Eurlyne Howell of Bossier City, La. Five feet six inches tall in her stocking feet, and even more statuesque in high heels, she was tailored to the Kelly pattern. Her shoulders were slim, her hair simply arranged...
...Chinese masters, says Watts, was wu-shih, which means "nothing special," or "no fuss." Bohemian affectations or monastery meditations are both forms of fuss, "and I will admit that the very hullabaloo about Zen, even in such an article as this, is also fuss-but a little less...
Concludes Watts: "Having said that, I would like to say something for all Zen fussers, beat or square. Fuss is all right, too. If you are hung on Zen, there's no need to try to pretend that you are not. If you really want to spend some years in a Japanese monastery, there is no earthly reason why you shouldn't. Or if you want to spend your time hopping freight cars and digging Charlie Parker, it's a free country. In the landscape of Spring there is neither better nor worse;/ The flowering branches grow...