Word: itch
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...exhilarated or frustrated by the tension and pressures of the big city and of their jobs, and often feel penned in at their air-conditioned, glass-walled offices set high on steel shelves. Maybe that is why they read so much about far-off places, have an incurable travel itch, and pursue exotic and audacious hobbies. And maybe that is why, when our Modern Living department got intrigued by the growing hobby of sky diving, two of the best sources for the story turned out to be at nearby desks. Sport Researcher Geraldine Kirshenbaum and Associate Editor Douglas Auchincloss (whose...
...great films are represented-that is, all her 20th Century-Fox films: The Seven Year Itch, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Bus Stop and so on. Milestones like The Misfits and Some Like It Hot, both United Artists pictures, are unexplainedly absent. With exaggerated curls and lumpish contours, she starts out in a four-girl chorus in A Ticket to Tomahawk. George Sanders in All About Eve tells her that he can see her "career rising in the east like the sun." Incongruously, she sits on a couch beside Jack Paar in Love Nest...
...plants of foreign-designed cars have blossomed from Egypt to Formosa. Japan's 14 auto producers, who design their own autos, plan to double production this year. South Africa's plants put together no fewer than 95 different models. But Latin American countries, which have caught the itch, simply cannot afford the grandiose auto industries that they have lately created. While the U.S. has five major auto producers, Latin America has close to 50-mostly from the U.S., Europe and Japan-and far fewer buyers...
...itch to travel, along with the urge to find all the comforts of home, is bringing on the biggest spree of hotel building the world has ever seen. Along the most traveled international tourist and business routes the local scenery these days almost always includes the glass-and-steel presence of an American-type and American-run luxury hotel. The popping of champagne corks in celebration of another gala opening almost drowns out the noise of cranes putting up another hotel on the choice site next door...
...impelled not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession." Perhaps it was the fact that he stood on the Stockholm rostrum with five scientists (one American, four British) or perhaps it was just the old itch to shock. But at the end of his acceptance speech Steinbeck took the occasion to suggest a small revision in an older work by another author, with which some were certain not to agree (see RELIGION...