Word: hammock
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Remind me to lower the hammock, as the tree has grown since I hung it . . . WALTER S. PHILLIPS Tucson, Ariz...
Gromaire's impressionistic Manhattan, on show in Paris last week, is an overwhelming place. His Brooklyn Bridge is a gigantic stone and steel hammock slung between topless towers. Times Square at Night is a glaring latticework of light and darkness. "The shock of Times Square was almost brutal," Gromaire says. "I have seen photos and colored prints of the 'Great White Way,' but they are empty and meaningless when compared with reality...
...forged passport into the raincoat of a quiet Englishman; from there to the end, everything is as generally predictable as hot weather in August. When the amnesia-fogged Englishman turns out to be a bishop mistaken for a killer, only the most cooperative thriller fan will stir in his hammock...
Journalist John Gunther has made a career of breezing through countries, even whole continents, and persuading his readers that he is giving them inside stuff. His "Inside" (Europe, Latin America, Asia, U.S.A.) books have considerable popular virtues: they can be read in a hammock, they seldom induce thought, and they almost never leave a deep residue of conviction or concern. Writing with ebullience and wide-eyed surprise, he projects men and events just far enough beyond the daily-news level to satisfy those who dislike being serious but are plagued by the need to seem informed...