Word: hiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bertolt Brecht. First produced in 1926, and excitingly performed in this Eric Bentley production, Man uncannily foreshadows the process of brainwashing, the loss of identity, and the kind of society where every man wears a mask to hide the face he hasn...
After a week of major battles, furious fighting and heavy casualties (TIME, Jan. 11), the war in South Viet Nam settled back last week into its normal pattern of vicious, hide-and-seek, hit-and-run engagements. One band of Communist Viet Cong guerrillas beheaded a government provincial district chief northwest of Saigon, and another knocked over a strategic hamlet in the northeast, capturing enough U.S. weapons to equip an entire Red company. With U.S. helicopter crews working overtime, government troops killed and wounded 75 Viet Cong and captured tons of supplies in a sweep through a Red-infested area...
...last year, a onetime New Deal Democratic Congressman from Philadelphia (1936-43) who was brought in to clean house in the Justice Department after Truman fired his predecessor, J. Howard McGrath; of a heart attack; in Palm Beach. The Washington Daily News hooted that "the Administration now will hide its grapes of McGrath in the ever normal McGranery," but McGranery went at it with a will, bounced Justice bureaucrats, freely fired crooked U.S. marshals, and started proceedings to deport such Mafia mobsters as Frank Costello...
...large South African antelope. A sjambok, on the other hand, is a heavy hide whip...
NUTSHELL LIBRARY, by Maurice Sendak (Harper & Row; $2.95), is a box of four delights, tiny enough for a child to hide away and keep. All the stories are both written and illustrated by Sendak, who is the Picasso of children's books, and each of them has a function: one teaches counting, another the alphabet, a third offers a strong moral (you should care), and the fourth praises the wonders of chicken soup with rice...