Word: killjoys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...love. "The American secular image of marriage and the family is schizoid in its romantic inability to face reality. Prudential consideration in the seeking of one's life partner, such as the desirability of similar backgrounds, interests and ideals, seems to these teenagers a mere censorious haggling of killjoy elders and the unromantic benighted drudges of society. The typical teen-ager's byword today is: 'If I love him, that's all that matters...
Fred Blais, on his toes at last, portrays admirably the spirit of repressive convention lurking through the ages. Whereas Tillson Ariels the Dionysic Goodchild, Blais Calabans the Apollonic and parsimonious Parson Killjoy...
...Mindelheimers reckoned that Sir Winston, a sixth-generation grandson of John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough, was a liege lord of theirs through his descent from that ancestor, who was paid off in 1705 with the principality of Mindelheim for military aid to the Holy Roman Empire. In Britain, however, killjoy scholars stuffily pointed out that Sir Winston is merely a collateral descendant of the great Marlborough-and that only eight years after the princedom† was established it became, through a territorial reshuffle, extinct. Only title thus left to Churchill by his warrior forebear: Prince of the Holy Roman Empire...
...going to be a killjoy and spoil your reading, Subscriber Randall. You just go right ahead with what you were doing. And if you come across any clues as to what happened to that "lasting peace" we were working on during '44, please let me hear from you at once...
...Papa was no killjoy. He was often in the mood for pranks. "Once we were all going bathing, and we girls and Papa hurried on ahead and hid in the hollow, and when Mamma, Auntie and Strakhov were passing Papa set up a howl like a wolf, to frighten them, but spoiled it all because he said,'Now all howl,' so loudly...