Word: locusts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...story about an M.C. of a This-Is-Your-Life-like TV program who decides to become a saint. That idea is a vulgarized Mailer version of a book called Miss Lonelyhearts by Nathanael West-who also wrote a little satirical tale of Hollywood (The Day of the Locust), which in one page shows more style, wit and distinction than could be combed from all The Deer Park...
August is also the time for the piercing locust cries of the hucksters of haute couture, who give interviews about what the new fashion line shall be, but sorry monsieur, no photographs: the Fashion Syndicate decrees no pictures until...
...good government, the special agencies (see chart} are least conspicuous when they are working well. The International Telecommunication Union makes it possible for an American to telephone any one of 81 million telephone subscribers outside the U.S. The World Meteorological Organization gives warnings of storms in Asia, of locust pests in the Middle East; letters and parcels move freely across the continents and oceans because the Universal Postal Union divides the expenses among its 93 member nations...
Like the edge of a locust swarm, the frontier of Commuterland advances, driving the farmers before it and leaving deposits of white colonial mansions and wrought-iron signs upon the green, tumbled land. But just ahead of the chirking mass, beyond the last bounds of a commuter's endurance, past the Levittowns and past Newyorkerland with its split-level houses and split-personality admen and Wall Streeters, lies the land of Dinner Party. It is rich farmland which no one farms, populated by Men who have Made their Mark and their families. Their wives scorn elegance in favor...
...that TV program with a guy from the CRIMSON, some kind of a managing editor named Lokas or Locust--a real subversive...