Word: maelstrom
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...narrator and reader are plunged into the dark underside of a surrealist life as lived by some decidedly improper Bostonians. Altogether betrayed by his faithless wife and conniving business agent who tricks him into painting the Da Vinci forgery, the narrator complains that he has been tipped into a "maelstrom of false marcheses, mercenary Bergamese whores, slippery Italian counts, witless German art experts, villainous Peruvian generals, paranoiac harpies, spiteful Russian cats, specious Polish wizards, spying pigeons, nosy janitors and ambitious Irish cops." He is also completely immersed in the unquestionably sprightly, if unusually perverse, world of three painters-Benjamin Littleboy...
...School are Harvard or Radcliffe students, and there are several hundred more winter residents who stay around for the summer but do not attend the Summer School. Most of these tend to stick with one another, and generally are not found in the center of the Summer School social maelstrom, the Yard...
Martha Peterson, L.H.D., president of Barnard College. Out of Kansas she came, fresh as the morning dew, tall as the corn in stature, and in her thinking as wide as the plain. Into the maelstrom of Morningside Heights steps the strong and kind Miss Peterson . . . wise and understanding friend of students...
...between the Class of '43 and the graduates of 1968 is not as wide and profound as one may initially beliee. A visiting Nieman Fellow by the name of Fred Neal wrote in the CRIMSON in 1943, "Harvard's reputation in Washington is not only academic. Particularly in that maelstrom called Capitol Hill, Harvard is almost synonymous with long hair, unworkable theories, and those vague activities described as 'un-American...
Last week's maelstrom of looting and arson swirled past Oakland, Calif., leaving its hate-filled ghettos almost unscathed. But Oakland's police were deeply embroiled in a bitter private race feud of their own. Ranged against them was a strutting band of hyper-militants styling themselves the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense. The Panthers, armed and angry, are defiantly demanding a facedown...