Word: gos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...novel upturns sociology; young Parmelee is sound enough, but his world is maladjusted. He belongs to the moneyed society of Long Island, and the vast shingled mansions have deteriorated sadly since the great days of the 'gos. A good deal of the money is still lying around, but so, unfortunately, is the society. Of the buttoned-down youths who lead lives of quiet self-satisfaction, Reese is scornful: "As Christians they have accepted atheism. As Republicans they have accepted socialism. As snobs they have accepted everybody. Yet they still live by forms...
...follow the games too closely, but the ninth hole, a par four right by the clubhouse, continued to be a psychological sand trap worse than the course's 130 real ones, a place for bogeys and double bogeys. Ike played six rounds in seven days, stayed in the gos most of the time, his strong long game suffered from a duffer's tendency to fail to follow through on some drives, and his short game, never too good anyway, found him three-putting many a green. The President, explained Golf Pro Norman Palmer, was "having trouble concentrating because...
When she wants to talk about what is closest to her heart-the glorious career of Marjorie Morningstar-she goes to the West gos brownstone flat of her dearest friend, a' fat, good-natured girl with intellectual pretensions named Marsha Zelenko. Marsha lives with her parents in an apartment decorated with Mexican copper plates, Chinese screens and African masks. Papa Zelenko strums the balalaika: Mama Zelenko pounds out Bach on the piano. After Margie scores a hit in a Hunter College production of The Mikado, Marsha gets her a job as dramatic coach at a children's camp...
Circuits of Exultation. For the next six weeks, White carried him tirelessly about house, barn and fields. He stood "smiling into space" while Gos tore at his ungloved hand and ripped his cheek. After days of inching progress, Gos accepted a 24-yd. creance (length of twine). White's next job was to teach Gos to fly to his shoulder. At first White cringed as Gos pounced, claws first. There was always the chance that the hawk would strike at his face. Five yards, two yards-soon White could stare at the hawk until he was only...
Writes White, who later succeeded in training other hawks and the more tractable falcon: "Nothing is more certain than that Gos entangled his jesses in one of the myriad trees of The Ridings, and there, hanging upside down by the mildewed leathers, his bundle of green bones and ruined feathers may still be swinging in the winter wind...