Word: oed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...canopied Republic Square. Just two years earlier, getting ready to nationalize the Suez Canal Co., he had yelled: "Americans, may you choke to death in your fury." Now the crowd of 100,000, assembled by trucks and bargain-rate excursion trains from all over Egypt, roared "Ya Gamal!" (O Gamal!). At length, the huge square stilled, and the President and his honor guests from Iraq waited briefly, during a reading from the Koran: "Those who oppose truth will die angry, but we will conquer." Then, mopping the sweat off his face with a handkerchief, Nasser launched into his speech...
Help for Humanity. "When the July 14 revolution occurred in Baghdad," he proclaimed, "the meeting of the Arab people, O my brothers, came as a natural process. The agreement between us was signed long ago in your hearts, by you the people in this republic and in the Iraqi republic. And, brethren, Beirut will attain its victory with God's help, and Amman too, and so will Jerusalem and every fighting Arab city. The armed British aggression on Jordan shall be defeated, and the American armed aggression against Lebanon, but the free people of Jordan and Lebanon shall remain...
Amid the usual postvictory fuss (Miss Colombia has only been kissed once, said her mother, and that was a chaste peck for a publicity still with "that actor"(Hugh O'Brian, TV's Wyatt Earp), those who had tentatively picked blondes tracked back to discover where things had gone wrong. A precrowning favorite was Miss U.S.A., Eurlyne Howell of Bossier City, La. Five feet six inches tall in her stocking feet, and even more statuesque in high heels, she was tailored to the Kelly pattern. Her shoulders were slim, her hair simply arranged...
...general approach concerns the shows' running-time. There are fewer cuts than used to be the case, but he still seems reluctant to give us the full texts. So what if a production does run over three hours? We are willing nowadays to sit through four-hour movies and O'Neill plays, and we certainly can do the same for Shakespeare. It is always dangerous and ill-advised to cut works of art; and the part excised is always somebody's favorite bit--maybe even the critic...
Died. Saxe Commins, 66, senior editor at Manhattan's Random House publishing firm, editor of three Nobel prize-winning U.S. writers (Eugene O'Neill, Sinclair Lewis, William Faulkner); of a heart ailment; in Princeton, N.J. "The role of the editor," said Saxe Commins, "is to be invisible"; yet his hidden persuasion had profound effect on modern American literature. Friend and editor of William Faulkner since Mosquitoes in 1927, Commins in recent years cleared working space for the Mississippian in his Manhattan office and Princeton home, provided the right kind of stimulation for the novelist's production...