Word: giant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your journalistic excursion into the life and mind of Walter Lippmann was quite interesting. My reading of this "intellectual giant" (?) has been for the avowed purpose of keeping myself informed concerning his obvious lack of intellectual and moral discipline in evaluating the tremendous problems ui our times. I am numbered among many who would be most grateful if Lippmann would take a stand that could endure the test of time, in other words, a stand characterized by the tenets of a philosophical-political-moral truth...
...visiting players from abroad seemed a breed apart. They seldom body-checked, showed no signs of pique when an American opponent lowered a shoulder and sent them sprawling. They tried few power plays, relied instead on dazzling skating and passing so precise that their offense looked like a giant-sized game of animated chess. Instead of whooping with triumph after a goal, they skated deadpan back up ice. But the touring Russian all-stars had one familiar sporting trait: they played...
...Grindelwald, Switzerland, two U.S. girls startled Europe's best skiers, gave an unexpected boost to U.S. chances for the 1960 Olympics at Squaw Valley, Calif. New Hampshire's Penny Pitou, 20, swooped down, won both the downhill and combined championships. Vermonter Betsy Snite, 20, won the giant slalom, finished second in the downhill and twelfth in the combined...
...stumbles half-comatose into an automobile, weaves back home unscathed, and collapses into the miseries of natural sleep (he dreams that a fat gypsy squaw castrates him with a silver-bladed bread knife). Finally, he swallows the magic "pheeny" that returns him to the blissful, dreamless condition of "some giant foetus...
...Sleep sets the tone for most of the other stories by introducing Author Herlihy's obsessive interest in the "foetal" world of prehistory, when the "gray vapor-covered earth" was ruled by "giant serpents and tiny-headed monsters." Weeping in the Chinese Window describes the cruel seduction by a tiny-headed monster in human form of a spinster who has never suspected the existence of primeval, serpentine masculinity. A Summer for the Dead features a lusty gal who is rejected by a man dead from the waist down and settles for one who is only dead from the neck...