Word: gun
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Where there's tyranny, there's tyranny, not only in the gun barrel, not only in the prison cell, not only in the torture rooms . . . There is tyranny in the facial expression firmly set like iron bars, and in the stillborn tormented cry of pain within these bars...
...There are plenty of weird characters to titillate you a la Auntie Mame. But like any sight-seeing excursion, it is also very tiring. Even Kerouac seems to tire of spending a paragraph or two on people who sit around shooting benzedrine tubes at each other with an air gun. Toward the end of the book he contents himself with describing one party by listing names: "'Dean?' I yelled across the party--which included Angel Luz Garcia, the poet; Walter Evans; Victor Villanueva, the Veneauelan poet; Jinny Jones, a former love of mine;...(etc.)... and innumerable others--'Come over here...
...echoes of a 21-gun salute and brass-band strains of the British and U.S. national anthems, the two heads of state exchanged official greetings and began the great procession to the White House. All along the four-mile route, from the airport to the White House, a million celebrity-jaded Washingtonians cheered Ike and his guests as they rolled slowly in the President's bubble-topped Lincoln. As the Eisenhower grandchildren flattened their noses against the upstairs windowpanes, Mamie Eisenhower (who changed her dress at the very last minute from peony red to olive green) stepped...
...rodeo which will end its two-week run Sunday at the Boston Garden, relatively little time is spent in actual competitions. In each of the five events, there are not more than ten entrants, all of whom participate in machine-gun fashion, seemingly having been instructed to take a "no-time" rather than hold up the show...
Segal took his place on the line, shook hands with Iglesias, wished him "good luck," and, when the gun sounded, lit out at record pace. A hundred yards, two hundred, three hundred--Segal was well out in front...