Word: peeping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...vowels while the sound track spatters round little English sounds, look a bit like hippos catching peanuts. But the DeLuxe Color is tastefully mixed, and the camera is held by a master (Giuseppe Rotunno). What's more, the camera is pointed at something fiercely beautiful: Sicily. Yellow palazzi peep through dark-green foliage like colossal lemons; vast rococo ball rooms drown the mind in a delirium of pink cherubs and gilt-plaster scrolls; and out of the dark-blue sea the big Sicilian mountains leap like orange flames...
Permissiveness in publishing has come a long way. Today almost every corner newsstand offers as titillating a peep show as the old burlesque houses ever managed-and nobody is there to ring down the curtain. Dozens of "girlie" magazines wink at the casual browser; even at the local bookseller's, the shelves are loaded with books that once had to be bought under the counter in Paris and smuggled past customs...
...executioner, Adolf Eichmann was a flop. He got queasy at the sight of corpses, and when a fellow Nazi invited him to peep at some Jews being gassed in a truck, he ran away in terror. "If today I am shown a gaping wound," he declared, "I can't possibly look at it. I am that type of person...
...African and Afro-American Students' Association, its action will be an unwarranted interference in the political life of undergraduates. The last thing it will be is proof that the University refuses to tolerate racial discrimination. (In the final clubs, after all, discrimination continues to exist without a peep from either the HCUA or the Deanery...
Daley's stubborn resolve to rebuild his city has given Chicago a new stature. At the same time, its old vitality happily continues to beat out the jazzy cacophony that gives Chicago its rowdy rhythm and its imperishable lustiness. Chicago can no more do without its bawdy peep shows or its cackling Paddy Baulers than it can do without its Fields, its Swifts-and its Dick Daleys. In its own broad-shouldered way, in its anatomy and in the art of its clout, in its indestructible zest for life, Chicago is a man among cities...