Word: itches
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...main hall there were the usual representations of the Buddha, curling smoke from incense bars and deep-throated chanting of sutras by a monk with a drinking party later. But there was one variation in the ancient rite: a large still of Marilyn from The Seven Year Itch in front of the altar. In that setting, Marilyn's delight might even suggest satori...
...Updike points out, are the evils that persist in Everyman: "Is not destructiveness within us as a positive lust, an active hatred? Who does not exult in fires, collapses, the ruin and death of friends? What man can exempt from his purest sexual passion and most chivalrous love, the itch to defile...
...evasive about their exact positions at the top of the world. He asserted his claim to the Pole only after returning to civilization and learning that the world was already crediting the achievement to Frederick A. Cook, a Brooklyn physician. The stakes were high for both men: the polar itch had become the obsession of their lives, but there were also publishing contracts and lucrative lecture tours...
...feeling the pinch. In Southern California, more than 16% of those without work are in professional, technical or managerial classifications. Nationally, many teachers and recent college graduates with liberal arts degrees find themselves unwanted, and managers in the over-50 set who were forced to take early retirement and itch to get back in the saddle are pounding the streets. Ross Kalegi, owner of an Akron employment agency, describes the plight of one: "He was making $18,000 a year as a sales executive at a rubber firm, but he was forced to retire...
...addition, more than half of this year's Nieman group enrolled in a fiction writing seminar taught by Diana Thomson. ("While we don't want to turn our journalists into novelists, many of them can't suppress the itch." Thomson remarked...