Word: hellings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Reston was only 34 when he broke the Dumbarton Oaks story. He had been in Washington less than a year. He was, as he puts it, "in a hell of a hurry." But there was more to his energy that ambition. He had been in journalism a third of his life, and he had convictions about his calling...
...Aweigh. As far as Congress was concerned, the most compelling argument for the anti-poverty program was that it could ultimately transform chronic "tax eaters," in Johnson's phrase, to new taxpayers. Even before it received congressional approval, Shriver had started gathering staffers and ideas. "How in the hell do you fight a war on poverty?" he asked everyone within earshot. "What do you do?" Laboring up to 16 hours a day, the anti-poverty warriors were shunted all over the capital, found themselves at one point in the basement morgue of an ancient hospital, at another in what...
...Kerr calls a campus that "will seem small as it grows large." Right now, it seems only too small. While dormitories for Cowell near completion, students are jammed eight to each 58-ft. trailer, where, says one, "If you don't like your roommates, it's sheer hell." They file in long lines past a trailer steam kitchen to load cafeteria trays, eat in a field house. But the administration building is finished, classes are being held in the natural sciences building, and a second college, named for Adlai E. Stevenson, will open next fall...
Madame X. This hardy old hand-wringer about a fallen woman was somewhat behind the times when Hollywood first discovered it back in 1920. Since then, the lady has been going to hell at regular intervals-in 1929 with Ruth Chatterton, in 1937 with Gladys George. It was probably inevitable that Lana Turner and Producer Ross Hunter would want to take her out of mothballs just once more. Lana can wear clothes and look worried quite fetchingly, and Producer Hunter caters almost exclusively to an audience that not only loves to see and touch the flimsy fabric of human existence...
...Neurosis. These bogles, unlike most fancy-free elves, are not bores; malice and eloquence save them from that un-Irish condition. All of them turn on Trellis, afflict him with more boils (64) than Job's, and provoke him to a robust curse: "You hog of hell, you leper's death-puke!" A bleak, black coda to the book-within-a-book says enigmatically: "Evil is even, truth is an odd number and death is a full stop." Was Trellis mad? It is hard to say. Was he a victim of hallucinations? Professor Unternehmer, the German neurologist, allows...