Word: messe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...take much imagination to see in Mahood (Manhood?) Author Beckett's savage symbol for mankind. Beckett's great strength is to make his readers uneasy. Like all Beckettmen, Mahood echoes the old existentialist plaint that he did not ask to be born and that life's mess is not of his making. Despairingly he sums up his and Beckett's arid philosophy: "I'm mute, what do they want, what have I done to them, what have I done to God, what have they done to God, what has God done to us, nothing...
...G.O.P. Senate and House nominees insisted that Adams' continued presence in the White House was ruining them politically. A day or so later, Republican National Chairman Meade Alcorn added something to the Nixon message; major Republican financial contributors were snapping shut their wallets until after "the Adams mess" was cleaned...
However, Hurlburt's tour of duty with the Army should serve as at least a feeble approximation to University dining conditions. While at Fort Bragg he was assistant director of the Officers' mess which served 3,500 members...
Even a Madison Avenue hotshot could not hope to straighten out the public relations mess in which the HSA became entangled. Thus, HSA's main problem for this second year, and perhaps for some years to come, will be making friends among the student members. Officers of the corporation are now walking a tight-rope; without some public approbation, the member concessionaires cannot make an adequate profit...
...better than three years, dark-haired, dynamic Editor-Publisher Charles Foley has shaped his Times into a trimly edited, headline-splashed eight-column paper that generally has islanders choking on their breakfast. He thinks, and says, that British policy is a mess. He loudly deplores Greek terrorism for destroying all chance of peace. He blasts the island's Turkish leader for stirring up racial hatred...