Word: nut
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...novel that the reviewer wishes Malamud had written. The book is judged in terms of what it is not, and therefore is found to have "missed." There is nothing more contemporary than Malamud's theme; that of identity. Within the "innocent-guilty" framework is embedded the hard, solid nut of Yakov's stubbornness: I am what I know is true. Malamud speaks for contemporary Americans as well as for one Russian Jew. Man's inner quantum soul is reflected here...
...Manhattan, Leary will open his show in California, which manages to be boffo, religioso, weirdo and sexo with or without LSD. The turn may not make psychedelic drug-taking and its kicks comprehensible to the average ticket buyer, but it ought to attract enough attention to pay the nut. That's O.K. as far as Producer-Star Leary is concerned. "Any money that we make," he says, "will be plowed back into the religion...
...Your cover story on that nut house called China [Sept. 9] was a splendid piece of political writing. Mao Tse-tung has gone even beyond Stalin, his patron saint and political guru, in villainy. No political leader in history cuts such a ridiculous figure trying to stamp his aging image on the hearts of nearly 800 million people...
...housed 800 floors below the Arizona desert and is developing capability to thrust explorers into any time period, past or present. The first human test pilot is propelled back five decades, finds himself in the Atlantic on the Titanic. The captain naturally thinks his visitor is some kind of nut and locks...
Angelenos for years ate mostly on the run, and mushroomburgers and double nut-fudge sundaes...