Word: mad
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Noninterference means "not interfering with Communist expansion. Nasser was mad at Khrushchev because he had promised noninterference in Arab affairs. He shouldn't have been. Khrushchev was using the Soviet meaning...
...cops: "They're not of the higher intelligence groups, I feel." Alumni were telling each other that the St. Patrick's hoo-ha did not measure up to the 1919 battle between college boys and parading veterans of World War I. Students were not even very mad at their prexy any longer; Whitney Griswold, who promised to kick out students for any more bad behavior, finally admitted that both sides had cause for grievance, and said he would confer with Mayor Lee. For a fillip, the university prepared this week to play host to a long-planned conference...
...Tinguely's show of 17 "Meta-Mechanisms" in the Galerie Schmela. The Meta-Mechanisms were constructions of stovepipe-black sheet metal from which sharp, whitewashed metal fragments on wire stems sprouted like weird abstract flowers. Driven by hidden electric motors, they jiggled, skittered and bounced. Some spun like mad pinwheels, others rotated gravely like segments of an ear trying vainly to reassemble itself. Most were accompanied by sound effects as hidden camshafts thumped cowbells or old teakettles. The opening was notable for three eulogies read simultaneously by three admirers ("An apparatus of Tinguely is useless. An apparatus of Jean...
...novels, Author Durrell continues the febrile investigation of life and love in prewar Egypt so splendidly begun in Justine (TIME, Aug. 26, 1957) and Balthazar (TIME, Aug. 25, 1958). Most of the same characters are still loping through the bedrooms and back alleys of Alexandria: Pursewarden, the slightly mad novelist-diplomat; Justine, the dark-browed, amoral Jewess; Nessim, her millionaire Coptic Christian husband; Darley, the sad-sack Irish schoolteacher; Melissa, the tuberculous Greek dancer. But the protagonist of this new book is a relative newcomer, David Mountolive, who returns to Egypt as British ambassador after having lived there...
...that at last they seem as important and ominous as any character in the book. When the bomb finally goes off, it is not so much an exclamation point as a period to a narrative that has told all but judged nothing. Who is to say that the half-mad sad-sack hero really is different from the nihilist leader, or that the civil servant's allegiance is so far removed from the revolutionary's? Author Biely makes the reader work toward the answers...