Word: ghosting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Menderes' heirs in the Justice Party kept gaining ground with their strange mixture of aging leaders forever trotting out the ghost of the dead leader and young politicians forever promising that they could run things more efficiently than Inonu. In last month's nationwide municipal elections, Inonu was plainly overconfident. While Justice Party Leader Ragip Gumuspala, 66, campaigned strenuously, covering thousands of miles a week, Inonu loftily limited his politicking to a single 20-minute radio speech. The results gave Inonu's Republicans only 37% of the vote; two smaller parties in Inonu's shaky government...
...young woman is Julie Harris, and the thing that is trying to get into her bedroom is the specter of Hill House. In Shirley Jackson's bestselling ghost story, The Haunting of Hill House, the specter is a sneaky spook that evidently intends to get between the sheets. In this movie version, directed by Robert Wise, the specter is slightly censored-what's left is just the usual commercial spirit. Whenever it appears, the violins on the sound track start to didder, doors open and shut by themselves, people stare about in terror and squeak: "The house...
What worked were words that touched upon wellsprings of inner life, especially fear and sex. To build a "key vocabulary," Teacher Ashton-Warner daily asked her tots, "What word do you want?" Among the words children chose: love, kiss, darling, ghost, bomb, alligator, police. Each child took home "his" word, printed on a big card, learned it without effort. Using these "one-word captions of the inner world," the kids went on to write a daily autobiographical story. Sample: "Mummie got a hiding off Daddy. He was drunk, she was crying." Or: "My Father got drunk, and He drank...
...menus but no food, steam baths without steam, hotels without beds. There is even a magazine editor who "sweats all over" as he "puts in quotes and takes them out again and reads each page from top to bottom and from bottom to top." Says one Big Brotherly ghost: "You don't have to talk, you don't have to think at all." Terkin finally manages to escape and wakes up in a hospital on earth, where doctors confidently predict that he will live...
...Ghostly Feet. In scope and detail, Foot's Bevan bears comparison with Churchill's Memoirs: the central figure is set against a wide and populous political landscape; biography becomes history. Churchill, of course, is all grandeur and the tragedy of nations; Bevan was a class warrior, and his finest hour, like Socialism's, was never to come. But as near as may be-though he has been dead three years-this is Sevan's own brief. It is a sort of ghost-written book, with Foot as ghost, for Biographer Foot was not only a close...