Word: masters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After the train's first leg from New York, Southern puts its premier cru seal on the train at Washington by attaching a kitchen-dining car and installing its own crew. The train now has 13 cars, including four coaches, five sleepers and a lounge car with a master suite that boasts the only permanent rolling shower bath on American rails. In Atlanta in the morning, the overnight diner is replaced with a clean car, another crew, and a whole new cast of Pullman porters...
...which has provided no comfort for Argentina's pre-eminent master of poetry and prose, Jorge Luis Borges. Appalled at the prospect of weeks of soccer mania, he says he is leaving Buenos Aires for the World Cup duration. Usually a staunch Anglophile, Borges has even turned against the British. Why? "They have introduced stupidities such as football...
...told when it is safe to cross or he may want to help crossing, in which case the sighted person should allow the blind person to take hold of an elbow. One should never feed, pet or otherwise distract a guide dog unless expressly permitted by its master. Nor should one grab a blind person's cane or the arm holding...
...judge accurately when to cross the street, especially at unusually shaped intersections or when there is a great deal of confusing noise. A guide dog isn't much help here; it is trained not to cross the street but rather to stop at the curb and wait for its master's next command. In a situation where it is hard for a blind person to discern when to cross a street, it may be equally troublesome to find a person to help him. Here an offer of assistance is most welcome...
...master of invective, Mencken never failed to beguile his audience. Even Southerners were amused when he labeled Dixie the Sahara of the Bozart. And his classic encyclopedia, The American Language, brilliantly traced the wellsprings of slang and ethnic argot. But in larger matters he was more naive than the booboisie. When real goose-steppers came along, Mencken failed to perceive the German danger and, as Fecher notes, "brushed off Nazi treatment of the Jews." His literary criticism was sometimes blind to contemporary talent: he thought Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath was "full of pink hooey" and found...