Word: ludi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...metaphysics of the original. "We ourselves shall be loved for a while and forgotten,' she says. "But the love will have been enough . . . Memory is not necessary for love." Then a few seconds before final curtain, Actress Le Gallienne effectively recited the Beatitudes-tacked on by Adapter-Actress Ludi Claire...
...Burton. Another Baconian found his inspiration in the fact that both Bacon and Shakespeare used the word honorificabili-tudinitatibus. He divided the word into two parts, spelled the first backward (BACIFIRONOH), declared this to be an anagram for FR BACONO. From the rest of the letters, he got HI LUDI TUITI NATI SIBI, which taken all together spelled "These Plays, produced by Francis Bacon, guarded for themselves...
Author Kirst's picture of barracks life is only mildly caricature: he knows that the everyday facts are so close to comedy that there is no need to invent the ludi crous. Above all-almost for the first time since Hitler's rise, when the shadow of horror fell on all writing by and about Germans-this book makes at least one group of Germans seem truly human and amusing. For whatever else they were, Gunner Asch suggests the Wehrmacht soldiers were also members in the brother hood of the gripe, card-carriers in the great privates...