Word: omar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bughousers. In every mental institution where Maine was later caged-private, state and veterans' (before Veterans Administrator Omar Bradley's regime)-he found attendants almost uniformly brutal and degraded. As one patient observed, they were mostly "yeggs, fruits, hopheads, ex-convicts . . . drunks, common thieves." They specialized in beating and choking patients without leaving telltale bruises. One whom Maine met "had a theory that all violent insanity was connected with the lower colon," and treated it with enemas. And attendants (who call themselves "bughousers") are responsible for at least 90% of the "treatment" given to patients in most mental...
...London one day in 1861 Poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti and his great friend, Poet Algernon Swinburne, rummaging through the penny book box at Bookseller Quaritch's, made a sensational "find" - the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam rendered into English by an anonymous translator. "Next day," Swinburne reported crossly, "when we returned for more [copies], the price was raised to the iniquitous and exorbitant sum of twopence. You should have heard . . . the . . . impressive severity of Gabriel's humorous expostulations with [Mr. Quaritch], on behalf of a defrauded if limited public...
...Century-as Savage against Destiny ... as Manfred-but mostly of Epicurean Pathos of this kind -'Drink-for the Moon will often come round to look for us in this Garden and find us not.'" After a few moons, his marriage collapsed. Two years later the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam* appeared and presently became (with the exception of the King James version of the Bible) the most popular translation in English...
...fitting suit. . . blue spectacles on nose and an old cape. . . ." He lived to see his Rubaiyat become famous, but died (1883) a couple of decades before its fame became "a mania which swept the world" and posed a literary question that still engrosses Rubaiyat lovers : How much of Omar is Omar and how much is FitzGerald...
From the U.S.: General Omar Nelson Bradley, the "Doughboys' General" and able boss of the Veterans Administration, well knows how much peace in Europe cost in U.S. lives and money. The probable next Chief of Staff, he has a vital interest in seeing that U.S. foreign policy helps to create a politically and economically stable Europe; unless such a Europe is created, Bradley's veterans (or their sons) may fight again over battlefields where, two years ago, Bradley was hammering out victory...