Word: goldenly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Israeli victory last year that, as one fedayeen commander puts it, "handed us the Arab people on a golden platter." Students quit their classes to sign up as terrorists. Doctors abandoned their practices in Beirut and Cairo to come to Jordan to attend wounded fedayeen. Arab businessmen offered supplies and purchased weapons, and the Saudi and Kuwait governments began diverting to fedayeen coffers funds usually contributed to Jordan's budget. Individual contributions by the thousands poured in from Arabs throughout the Middle East and those abroad; the wife of Saudi Arabia's King Feisal sent...
Arriving at Turpin's home in a storm, Mandeville, an obvious drunkard and possible psychotic, demands that Turpin circumcise Mandeville's golden retriever. The subsequent brutal murder of the dog is but the beginning of a series of bizarre deaths in which Turpin naturally becomes entrapped. Verbally shanghaied aboard an expensive yacht, Turpin finds himself in Raceport, Long Island, where he grapples with a girl who promptly chokes to death on a wad of chewing gum. Nelson Falorp, wealthy owner of the yacht, has a heart attack in the bathroom of a wharf restaurant, and Turpin becomes responsible...
...most people today automobiles, jetplanes and the Golden Gate Bridge spontaneously evoke "It's beautiful!" Responses to Michelangelo's Pieta or Degas monotypes are more self-conscious...
...natural role of 20th century man is anxiety," as Norman Mailer's General Cummings said in The Naked and the Dead, Americans beginning the last third of the century are bearing their full load. "Uncertainty is the way it is now," says Joshua Golden, assistant professor of psychiatry at U.C.L.A. "People can be comforted if they understand that it's a normal occurrence...
...ways in which graffiti illuminate social or political frustrations. But more often the class will repair to a nearby bistro for a firsthand look at the living art. Reisner, who systematically began scrutinizing lavatory walls four years ago and has published two paperback collections of graffiti, believes that the golden age of the graffito is here. In addition to the wit on washroom walls, there is the contemporary lapel-button fad, which he describes as "walking graffiti." The fact is, says Reisner, that "graffiti may be the only creative outlet for some adults...