Word: outerness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...assistants made a fourth try at Edinburgh's Royal Infirmary last week. The team was headed by Scotland's Dr. Andrew Logan, a pioneer in heart-valve surgery. The patient: 15-year-old Alex Smith of the Isle of Lewis, one of Britain's Outer Hebrides islands, who accidentally swallowed enough weed killer to damage one of his lungs critically. The donor: Anne Main, an 18-year-old Edinburgh bank teller who died as a result of an overdose of aspirin-like painkiller. Tight-lipped in reaction to the press publicity that followed Dr. Donald N. Ross...
...biggest beneficiary is likely to be the Illinois Central Railroad, which owns air rights above its tracks and right-of-way along Lake Michigan worth at least $185 million. Two of the most imposing structures on the Chicago skyline, the 41-story Prudential Building and the 40-story Outer Drive East apartment building, have already been built on air rights sold...
...GATT and its small professional staff of 60. A native of Geneva and Switzerland's suave Ambassador to the Court of St. James's since 1966, Long brings a portfolio of experience that he collected during six years as head of the Swiss delegation to the Outer Seven...
Secret societies are difficult to justify in a democracy and at an institution where rewards are supposedly on merit. Unlike the groups of early Christians or the cells of the French Resistance, justification derives not from an oppressive outer force but rather from the members' inner needs for exclusivity. As James Baldwin has pointed out, everyone needs his "nigger." We are told by the Choate Club president that secrecy was necessary in order to avoid the anxiety suffered by those who weren't chosen. I suggest rather that secrecy at the Choate Club, in an egalitarian age where restrictive barriers...
...winds were always successful in outblasting the strings and often completely obliterated the fiddlers who seemed in particular to be their mortal enemies. The leather-lunged trumpets vandalized the two outer movements of the Beethoven, while percussionists ran roughshod over the Mozart overture...