Word: laden
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Peter Matthiessen (Yale '50) and John P.C. Train (Harvard '50), son of the late lawyer-writer Arthur Train. Over Pernods at the Chaplain bar in Montparnasse, they agreed that the world badly needed a new little magazine, and scraped together $ 1,000 to start it. Their complaint: "Laden with terms like 'architectonic,' 'Zeitgeist' and 'dichotomous,' the literary magazines seem today on the verge of doing away with literature, not with any philistine bludgeon, but by smothering it under the weight of learned chatter." The Review "put criticism where we thought it belonged...
Imaginative Lessons. For U.S. officials entrusted with reshaping policy after the warning-laden Nixon trip, the Puerto Rican advance is a textbook of imaginative lessons. In helping underdeveloped nations, the U.S. could well consider: ¶ A measure of tax forgiveness for corporations operating overseas, advocated by former Treasury Secretary George Humphrey to induce foreign investment. ¶ Support for big common markets-such as the proposed Latin American customs union-that will provide markets such as Puerto Rico has in the U.S. ¶ Official coolness to dictators, who are often corrupt and ultranationalistic. ¶ Greater tolerance for mixed economies...
Reliving the good old days on Line 23, Russian-born Impresario Sol Hurok, 70, returned to the scene of his first U.S. job (as a conductor on Philadelphia trolleys in 1906), picked up a whereas-laden scroll from the city council, honoring him for his contributions to Philadelphia culture, put on a visored cap and an owlish mood to collect a symbolic token or two. Hurok sheepishly admitted that he was fired from the job "because the dispatcher soon found out that I was letting passengers off at the wrong corners...
...ease the pinch of losing his TV income from the canceled Walter Winchell File. Spectacular billboards glutted the highways for 300 miles around Las Vegas (and up and down Hollywood's Sunset Strip), radio stations spewed his own breathless announcements all over the West, the Tropicana was laden with huge photographs of Winchell hovering near President Eisenhower (caption: "The only reporter allowed this close...
Thinner than usual but dressed to the usual hilt (a ring on every finger, gold pins in the lapels of his blue-grey suit, a jeweled pin in his red-speckled tie), octogenarian Negro Cultist Father Divine made one of his rare appearances to supervise a vittles-laden Feast of the Lamb, celebrating the twelfth anniversary of his marriage to his blonde "Virgin Bride," Edna Rose Ritchings, 33. While red-jacketed "Rosebuds" sang "All the Angels Love You, You Are So Beautiful, Lord," fading Father Divine jangled a silver bell to start a typical meal at his Philadelphia headquarters...