Word: panning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some said it sounded like "pon!" Some believed it was more like "pan!" Others claimed that "pitchi" or "patchi" or even "zuboo" best described the sound, while others were willing to swear it was a whispered "pussu" as dainty as the beat of a butterfly's wings. Whatever the sound, it was certain that it took a sharp ear to hear it. But sharp ears were bent to catch it: last week, as they had each summer for upwards of two centuries, Japan's perceptive poets and philosophers listened more carefully than ever for the soft explosion...
...Sophonisba Preston Breckinridge, 82, veteran social worker, cofounder and longtime professor of the University of Chicago's famed School of Social Service Administration; in Chicago. She pioneered in social-welfare legislation, became the first woman delegate from the U.S. to any international conference when she attended the Montevideo Pan American conference...
Adirondacks; the West Branch Penobscot in Maine; Frying Pan Creek, out of Aspen, in Colorado; or the Gunnison, in southern Colorado ? Sun Valley has a trick of producing an expansive spirit in writers, as I know. But is Silver Creek really that good...
...Children, etc.). All are about the same thing-a family struggling under the rule of one or more domestic tyrants. All consist of conversation to the extent that a watermelon consists of water-conversation in which satire and terrifying realism are couched and half-concealed in a difficult, dead-pan prose...
...automatic rod for very relaxed fishermen (designed by Anthony Moliskey of San Pedro, Calif.). When a fish bites, the fisherman touches a button. A compressed air cylinder raises the rod, flips the fish toward the frying pan...