Word: lively
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jungle. The natural habitat of the Riviera male and female is either a hillside villa, a gleaming yacht or a huge hotel. Who could be a snob and not stay at the Carlton in Cannes? One guest kept three Chihuahuas on leash, another rushed in and out with a live leopard in his arms, and neither attracted much attention. Monte Carlo's sprawling Hotel de Paris had its rooms filled with idle maharajas, well-to-do Americans, lost Frenchmen. Nice's Hôtel Negresco welcomed financiers who kept the switchboard busy with their calls to brokers...
...dogs that had died of the disease, Surgeon Segal found the heartworms nestled together in the pulmonary artery. Then he operated on live dogs from the pound. Again the worms were neatly concentrated, so he was able to cut out the mass and restore full blood flow through the artery. The operation, says Dr. Segal, is similar to that used to correct stenosis (narrowing) of the pulmonary artery in children. The work, therefore, affords valuable practice and may turn up information of value in human surgery. Since he rates it as research and not a medical service, Dr. Segal collects...
...critics' sneers seemed almost unAmerican. "Something's wrong in this country right now," says he. "With the beatniks and all, it seems fashionable to be a failure. In Sweet Success I'm going to show people who are successful because they worked hard, and people who live well because they enjoy...
...when, after an exchange of prisoners, he returned with the U.S. troops who dashed into Manila to rescue his P.W. friends, he realized afresh how moving was man's capacity for hope and how strong was man's capacity for life. Man's will to live was a familiar story to Mydans: in 1940 a shrieking, clawing Chinese woman in Chungking had begged for money as she held aloft her dead infant, waving it by one foot, "like a butcher with a plucked chicken." Mydans gave her some money, and later that night, belly tight with food...
That truth is largely concerned with the growth to maturity of all the different people called "I," who live in a small, unnamed Southern town-and occasionally travel out from it. Their various roads to maturity are those of the whole world: love and labor, passion and violence are part of the process; so are dreams of the past, dreams of the future and dreams induced by marijuana and stronger "mainline" stuff. Many of the stories deal with the eternal masculine tension between sex and love. Writes Anderson in "Signifying," a tale of a pretty young Philadelphia schoolteacher...