Word: gingered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...GINGER...
...latest victim of the idea that anything and everything goes, especially on paper, is an American named James Patrick Donleavy, whose cross-pollination with Bloom has produced a rank Jimson weed. Its name: Sebastian Dangerfield, chief character of a mad, and-by British critics-madly praised novel called The Ginger...
Novelist Donleavy himself seems to have some such intention for his picaresque ranting hero and leaves him with a vision of the world running to nothing, like horses on a wintry road at night, and a prayer: "God's mercy/On the wild/ Ginger Man." But before this end is reached, the reader, surfeited on Joyce and ginger ale, may well want to conclude on a new version of Mrs. Bloom's last word to the reader of Ulysses: "No and I said...
...Aladdin. "Farewell! I leave for Samarkand!" In as delightful a piece of fluffy nonsense as Storyteller Temple has presented this season, Abu overcame the opposition of a smoke-breathing dragon and two villainous Oriental princes, won the princess' hand and heart. The Land of Green Ginger-a flying oasis that whimsically flitted about with its roots dangling-was satirically spoofy enough to entertain adults, was tricked up with a passel of fantastic gimmicks to bewitch children. Items: a magic carpet so aerodynamically proper that it would not fly when overloaded, a boy genie (his father was in the bathtub...
...paddles about the Square with a curious stagger, poking in and out of book shops and record stores, where he is known for his excellent taste and frequent purchases ("I wave a flag for Wagner and Richard Strauss."). During working hours, he has handy a large green bottle of ginger ale, which Frankie, a Boston cab driver who is often at his side, manages somehow to keep cold. Mr. Eyre seldom retires until past dawn and normally is not seen about until well past time for luncheon...