Word: muscularity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fine, frenzied throes of a theory. By some recondite detective work, he reaches the conclusion that the centaurs' food was mushrooms. It was a very special scarlet-capped European mushroom, known as the fly-amanite. According to Graves, this mushroom is fiery to the taste, imparts extraordinary muscular strength and creates overpowering sexual desire...
Capital Confusion A muscular dystrophy victim named Renato Ruieroz made the 800-mile trip from Rio by wheelchair, and arrived in time. A relay of athletes ran a flaming torch from Salvador, 1.800 road miles away, as 100,000 Brazilians converged last week to hear President Juscelino Kubi-tschek proclaim: "I declare inaugurated under the protection of God the city of Brasilia." President Dwight Eisenhower, like dozens of other heads of state, cabled his congratulations "on the splendid pioneering spirit of Brazil...
...former public high-school teacher, Author Simmons*began teaching in Cincinnati Country Day School's kindergarten eight years ago. "Contrary to the opinion of experts," she writes, "I find that fives can reason; their ears can hear phonics; their eyes can read, their muscular coordination does permit them to learn to write . . . They are enthusiastic, curious, keenly observant, open-minded, ager to learn, receptive and imaginative. As sheer pupil stuff, they are a teacher's dream come true...
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 3 (Glenn Gould, pianist; the Columbia Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Leonard Bernstein; Columbia, mono and stereo). Beethoven's symmetrically balanced dialogue between piano and orchestra emerges in a muscular, energetic and relentlessly logical reading. Pianist Gould and Conductor Bernstein work their bril liant moves like a pair of lifelong chess opponents who anticipate each other by the shift of a pawn...
...southof-the-navel decollete shimmied front and center, then disappeared into the wings, where she was received by the chatter of an offstage machine gun. In Lady Mac, a racy temptress in slinky black writhed atop the piano, then hopped to the floor to join four muscular gangsters in an apache dance. From behind swinging saloon doors popped three witches riding broomsticks and dressed in skin-tight blue jeans...