Word: peering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...life, a pitiable figure untainted by self-pity, Enrica has a kind of stoic charm. Not for export to the U.S., of course. The sociologists would ply her with group therapy. In a few weeks she would be blaming Dad for rejecting her, and tearfully reciting her laments to peer-group pals whose lives can be blighted by a back-seat rebuff on a blind date...
...silent spring crept over London, right into the House of Lords, where they were debating the dangers of pesticides and toxic chemicals. In the U.S., declared Lord Douglas of Barloch, practically every meal contained some DDT. Labor Peer Lord Edward Shackleton, 51, son of famed explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton, couldn't have agreed more. Why, there was a cannibal in Polynesia, said he, "who no longer allows his tribe to eat Americans. Their fat is contaminated. We have about two parts per million of DDT in our bodies, Americans about eleven parts per million." His Lordship's conclusion...
Before dismissing the whole thing as a sort of Study in Status-Motivated Behavior Within a Peer Group, the reader needs to remind himself that these people are among the greatest names in modern literature (though Ford Madox Ford and Robert McAlmon are no longer big beaks in the literary pecking hierarchy...
Morley became a member of the peer group in 1929 after his short stories had been published in McAlmon's This Quarter, and he had followed all agog from Toronto in its imperceptible wake. Soon. Morley was able to match anyone in the regional game of literary oneupmanship, and he knew who was meant when some one mentioned Eliot.* He proudly recalls the day he put in their places a couple of young squirts who thought they were In because they could recognize Hemingway in the streets. They thought a little man who followed Hemingway carrying...
...patent for permanence is simply that he can do no wrong. His cheapskate, self-deceiving, inept, shrug-it-off, endearing and vainglorious public character has grown round him for decade after decade like layer after layer of cement, and he has long since become utterly indestructible. Many of his peer contemporaries-Eddie Cantor. Fred Allen, Ben Bernie-are either retired or dead; but Benny just keeps on standing there with that look, and warm, unraucous laughter ripples all over the room...