Word: penniless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Razor's Edge. By far the best story in the book is George P. Elliott's satire, Among the Dangs. The Bangs are a homicidal South American tribe and the reluctant adventurer conned into going among them is a penniless college student who has taken an anthropology course, and who further qualifies, as he notes, by being "a good mimic, a long-distance runner, and black." His university persuades him to go, and when he returns, crawling with data and skin disease, he is rewarded with a lowly academic post...
Editor George was himself a refugee. He fled Germany in 1933, arrived almost penniless in the U.S. in 1938, got a $15-a-month job editing Aufbau, then a four-page monthly put out by New York's German Jewish Club (now the New World Club, it still owns Aufbau). George turned Aufbau into a weekly, built up circulation by offering its subscribers English lessons, information about naturalization, jobs and housing. Today Aufbau reflects the change in its times: it features first-rate theater and opera reviews, columns on the stock market, chess, stamp collecting and photography. Its famed...
Another area which the eight-man committee plans to investigate, the financial problems of small varsity sports, has been the subject of heated controversy since last year, when a slash of $100,000 from the athletic budget left six teams penniless. Lacrosse team coach Bruce Munro complained yesterday of his team's plight, claiming that he had been forced to ask friends at Dartmouth and Princeton to board his teams free of charge...
Then up stepped Brooklyn's outspoken Judge Samuel Simon Leibowitz, 66, Rumanian-born, up from the slums, and never-as a celebrated criminal lawyer or judge-averse to provoking a headline. New York, he said, needed 1) a state law to slow down the inflow of penniless migrants by requiring a one-year residence -normal in most states-before a newcomer becomes eligible for relief payments, and 2) a civic campaign to discourage migration to the city from "all parts of the country and the Caribbean." Puerto Rican children, he said, flashing a sheaf of papers, account...
...hero scissored by children from the backs of cereal boxes. His incessant wrestling with the devil is a little sophomoric, and his escape from Parmelee Cove shows the limits of even the best genre writing: Auchincloss can think of nothing better for him to do than marry a penniless fashion magazine editor and barricade himself in a Manhattan town house...