Word: habitants
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...many dreams of one man of our time." The dreamer evidently has a prosaic fantasy-life: the play turns our to be a straightforward polemic against a gallery of standard evils--hatred, social injustice, fate, racial prejudice. Blackstone, a gentle Negro heavyweight, can't kick the habit of goodness in spite of the suffering whites inflict on his race. Tiger, the blind man who wishes he were "better dreamed," and Fancy Dan, an embittered ex-convict, take their knocks with less dignity. "A little love somewhere is better," counsels Saroyan; "too much hate melts the bones, makes...
Speaking in Oxford, England, Saturday, Dean Erwin N. Griswold of the Law School told British lawyers that a lawyer's work is "by no means as exclusively practical as British practitioners have been in the habit of believing...
Wild Bill Hickok appears as the sort of feller who loved to talk about guns with the expertise of an Ian Fleming. "Now then, about that S & W you carry," said Wild Bill. "It is a handsome weapon, but the shells have a bad habit of erupting and jamming the chambers. I'd lay the piece aside and get me something else: a Colt's, with the Thuer conversion." Crabb reports that Hickok knew an hombre who carried a small pistol in his crotch. When cornered, the fellow would ask permission to relieve himself before dying, open...
...deal with the delegation of nuclear authority as though it were the central problem of the "nuclear issue" is a clever dodge. Senator Goldwater has appeared to many to be a man with a chip on his shoulder and with a dangerous habit of leaping before he looks. He has condemned our preoccupation with a peaceful foreign policy and has demanded an aggressive "victory" policy. In these two respects the Senator's candidacy is different from any other presidential candidate of the nuclear...
...published by a major U.S. magazine, appeared in the Atlantic in 1927-after Cosmopolitan, the Saturday Evening Post, Collier's and Scribner's had turned it down. Unwilling to rely solely on the editorial vision of literary agents, the Atlantic carefully read every unsolicited manuscript, a habit that persists to this day. "We publish more unsolicited material than any other national periodical," says Weeks...