Word: ingrown
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first curator of contemporary arts, he is certainly the museum's most controversial acquisition in the last decade. No one in Manhattan's ingrown art world elicits such studied veneration or unquotable outrage. One reason is that Henry has taken on the almost incompatible tasks of scout and judge. As scout, he strives to keep abreast, mingling familiarly with the most avant of the avantgardists. Huffing and puffing up countless stairs to artists' studios by day, wining and dining with their patrons by night, he is equally at home in the scruffy lofts of Canal Street...
...Another ingrown cliche concerns the value of "green belts" that girdle some cities. On planners' maps, green belts look wonderful. In reality, says Whyte, they have never served to contain a city's growth or to afford useful green space for its people. If open space just sits there without a positive function such as public park, golf course, or high-grade farm, Whyte says, it will surely be lost to a competitive good cause, like housing. In fact, the true theme of The Last Landscape is contained in Whyte's pithy phrase about open land...
Fozzle & Pleezy. Detroit's Sonny Eliot sees even more. Daily on WWJ he describes the weather as "colder than the seat of the last man on a short toboggan" or "uncomfortable as a swordfish with an ingrown nose." He sums up his forecasts as "fozzle" (fog and drizzle) crazy" (crisp and hazy), "pleezy" (pleasantly breezy) or "snowsy" (snow and lousy). He is thorny (thoroughly corny), but his report is the city's longest running (16 years) weather show and earns him $45,000 a year...
...more, many a hale male has dreamed of beating the draft by persuading the psychiatrist at the induction center that he was some kind of nut. That, however, is going about it the hard way. Men are rejected if they are hypersensitive to bee stings, have a severe ingrown toenail, or even if they have too many-or too obscene-tattoos...
...draw in expert help for a national talent search was the frankly apolitical motion of Independent George Olesen, a parting gesture toward progress as he left public life. Politics is back now. And beyond the immediate danger that Cambridge will not even consider hiring a superintendent from outside its ingrown system is the deeper threat that the Independents will take the easy course of becoming a mechanically anti-intellectual, regressive majority...