Word: nut
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...occasion, sloblike old Mike Hammer has been retired in favor of one Tiger Mann. The difference is imperceptible except that Tiger is equipped with an ideological fervor so single-mindless that even the Birch Society might suspect he is some kind of nut. It seems that, thanks to "the college boys in striped pants and the eggheads in Washington, our government has become a joke all the way down into Mau-Mau territory"; the West is sure to "lose everything"-unless Tiger and his extragovernmental CIA can stanch a critical security leak at the U.N. The "commy bastards," it turns...
...variety of opinion." Former Vice President Richard Nixon, who had reinstituted himself as the favorite target of some cartoonists by attacks on his fellow moderate Nelson Rockefeller, now called for a centrist leadership that would make enough room for both liberals and conservatives-but not for "the 'nut' left or the 'nut' right." In case anybody was wondering who might qualify as a centrist leader, Nixon pointed out: "I'm perhaps at dead center...
...initial idea for the play could have been mouthed by a New York cab driver: Those atomic scientists are crazy, man; they belong in a nut house. Mad Scientist No. 1 (Hume Cronyn) believes he is Sir Isaac Newton. Mad Scientist No. 2 (George Voskovec) thinks he is Albert Einstein. Mad Scientist No. 3 (Robert Shaw) hears the voice of King Solomon, and occasionally imagines that he is Solomon...
...even a devoted wife cannot save Luzhin from eventual suicide, nor can Nabokov's most artful verbal games save the reader from the realization that the gently maniacal Luzhin is a sentimental stereotype. This time out, Nabokov's butterfly net has brought back only an old chess nut...
Truth in Garbage. Rauschenberg has been called a neo-Dadaist, a belated abstract expressionist, a junk assemblagist, a pop artist, a hyper-cubist, even an anti-artist and, of course, a nut. "Great!" he says. "I like that. I'm only concerned when the critics stop changing their minds and get a fix on me." Getting a fix is hard because change is the essence of his experimentation. Yet at the heart of Rauschenberg's work is a clear conviction that a heightened order of truth can be found in everything and anywhere, even in the garbage dump...