Word: hiveness
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...Paris' Café de Flore. When characters shuttle between this life and the next, they glide through mirrors-Cocteau's favorite symbol of the doorway to death ("Look at yourself in a mirror all your life, and you will see death at work like bees in a hive of glass...
...lite of Christian men and (more importantly) women, who are trying to live a less worldly life than their neighbors; to be more attentive to the guidance ... of the Holy Spirit. More and more, by a kind of fatality, you see them draw apart from their coreligionists, a hive ready to swarm. There is provocation on both sides . . . Then, while you hold your breath and turn away your eyes in fear, the break comes; condemnation or secession, what difference does it make? A fresh name has been added to the list of Christianities...
Oversimplification. Writer Ferman complains that her husband became utterly dependent upon his analyst. As a social-work executive, he said, "to hive had an analysis was as desirable as to hold an advanced academic degree." She had hoped, after their marriage, to supplant the analyst "in a woman's way," but Jim went running from one analyst to another. Eventually, he tried to get Dorothy to go to an analyst. She refused, largely because of the cost, and concluded: "What it might do for me was less important than the fact that it would initiate me into the cult...
...Military Intelligence turned down his offer to serve as an expert in Far Eastern affairs, Field spent the war echoing Moscow's demands for a second front and helping plan and finance a scheme to bring the most active Red fronts under one roof. A busy hive of half a dozen front groups is the old three-story Astor office at 23 West 26th Street. Field supports it with his inherited wealth...
...Complete Poems, judged the book published in the last five years "most likely to attain the stature of a classic." Speaking to 300 breakfast guests, he became flustered for a moment and couldn't remember the opening lines of his famous poem about ants in a hive burying a fellow ant, which concludes...