Word: homeyness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kang is a raised, brick bed under which a fire is lighted to warm peasant homes; homey murals bedeck the surrounding walls...
...simple gaiety, carnival style. It's not a town of light pastels--pinks or greens or yellows. Even the old melting-pot brand of local color is graying around the edges now. The teeming foreign quarters are thinning out with the accents, as assimilation works her inexorable blending, and homey slums give way to lofty housing projects. Not much, in fact, enjoys permanence in New York: glimpses of ugly tenement and high-rent duplex shift kaleidescopically...
This struggle bears directly on the Senate race between Pierre Salinger and George Murphy. Murphy exemplifies the Midwestern ethic. Instead of addressing rallies, he discusses the campaign with small crowds in a subdued homey manner. In these little talks, the ex-song-and-dance man dispels the more frivolous connotations of his past by recounting his efforts to rid the entertainment industry of communist influences. His long association with right-wing crusades has garnered Murphy support from the Goldwater wing of the party, which includes most of the GOP's fundraisers and nearly all of its grassroots workers. Conversely, though...
...personal, sometimes questionable, but stellar nonetheless. It includes T. S. Eliot, Robert Lowell, W. H. Auden, Conrad Aiken, Robert Graves and Archibald MacLeish, plus many others whose voices will not be heard again, notably William Carlos Williams, Wallace Stevens, Theodore Roethke, E. E. Cummings. Robert Frost sounds as homey as a neighbor chatting in the kitchen: Robinson Jeffers, proclaiming that violence is "the bloody sire of all the world's values," has a voice as deep as doom...
...right to Krishna Menon on the left, are likely to give him several months' grace before they start rocking the boat. And after 17 years of Nehru's aristocratic rule, the mass of the Indian people appear to regard Shastri as representing a return to the homey, close-to-the-soil leadership of Gandhi...