Word: gropings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...grope your way in the half-dark to an empty seat at a beer-laden table. Your eyes are immediately attracted to the stage, and through the smoke of cigarettes and cigars you can see Lola, the Queen of the Blue Angel. With black-stockinged legs spread wide and arms carelessly akimbo she stands at the center of all gazes. In a low and vibrant voice she sings her way into the heart--and libido--of even so staid a person as Professor Immanuel Rath...
...learning all they can about the tense last moments of an instrument approach to a socked-in airfield. Today's blind-flying planes have intricate instruments to help them navigate (TIME, June 15). But only the most accurate observations can tell pilots when it is safe to grope through mist toward the ground. In their dangerous flights over Long Island, Rube Snodgrass and his crew, measuring those last few feet of weather, are setting new standards for tricky, foul-weather landings...
...coronation resembles what would happen if Washington, Lincoln and Jefferson were to come alive, and at an appointed hour drive down Fifth Avenue before the massed memberships of the DAR, SAR and American Legion. But America, lacking a living human being to sum up its history, can only grope at understanding what the Coronation means to the Commonwealth...
Special emphasis lies on the word "fruitful" throughout the book since Conant looks upon science as a thing very much alive. He rejects the widely held conception that scientific method is a well ordered sifting and evaluation of facts. Instead it is a process in which human beings grope, often clumsily, toward an idea. He relates scientific investigation to life. No longer is it more test tube drama...
...Nymph. This between-the-sheets dialogue, involving an aging vampire and her rebellious gigolo, is one of many things in this novel that will cause admirers of Britain's Margaret Kennedy to grope for their shoes and steal away. In The Constant Nymph Author Kennedy showed that it was quite possible to write a bestseller that, though of no great breadth, was intelligent, sensitive to life and very likable. The Feast catches her with her literary standards down...