Word: miasma
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Anne Porter, Mary McCarthy, Bernard Malamud and James Baldwin. "There are various ways to declare the death of the novel: to mock it while seeming to emulate it, like Nabokov or John Barth ... or to explode it, like William Burroughs, to leave only twisted fragments of experience and the miasma of death...
...this miasma two weeks ago came 40 strangers with a timely gift: free schooling. They include a score of New York City public school teachers, eight of them Negro, financed in part by the American Federation of Teachers; 16 Queens College students, all but one white, who practiced tutoring all winter and raised $7,200 to pay their way; and such irregulars as a Brooklyn private school teacher who quit his Virginia vacation when he read of the project in local newspapers...
...says Producer Irving Elman. "A Stirling Silliphant really isn't in the position of a television writer. He's an owner-writer." Silliphant himself professes to deplore the trend to "hyphenated billing." "Why permit insight to be curtailed, sensitivity to be blunted, by deliberately plunging into the miasma of memos and meet ings?" he says. But he nevertheless owns a healthy 25% of Route 66 and insists that from now on he will hold out for 50% ownership of any show he writes. He installed a Dow-Jones ticker tape in the study of his home in Glendale...
...sized blooms and shorter, stronger stems that do not fall over). The leaning to gigantism was reflected in row upon row of colossal amaryllis plants and roses the size of softballs. The New York Botanical Garden copped the "best in show" trophy for its tropical rain-forest garden-a miasma of brackish water beneath a Dorothy Lamour-type waterfall bordered by orchids, palms, creeping vines, and a rude-looking plant called Amorphophalliis titannm, which stood 8 ft. high. The Amorphophalliis produces a single 3-ft. blossom resembling a chocolate-covered jack-in-the-pulpit ("the largest flower in the world...
From John Glenn's simple and elevating faith to the mire and miasma of Tennessee Williams in seven days! Does this shift in TIME's covers illustrate what is wrong in America today...