Word: phrased
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Social security was mostly an emergency act in a nation still struggling out of the depths of a depression in which, in F.D.R.'s famed phrase, more than one-third of the nation was "ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished." The change since then in American life has never been more apparent than last week, when Congress acted on two bills that projected a new sort of welfare state beyond Roosevelt's wildest dreams. First, the House of Representatives passed and sent to the Senate, where it faces certain swift approval, the Johnson Administration's $6 billion...
...reason for Gourin's eminently un-Brittanic appearance is simple: "les Américains." That phrase defines the hundreds of Gourinois natives who have spent years in self-imposed American exile, then returned to Gourin with a tidy nest egg. Brittany has long been one of France's few labor-exporting regions, thanks largely to the peninsula's unyielding poverty. But of all the towns that send Bretons to the U.S., Gourin sends the most...
...Yellow Kid, considered by many to be the first bona-fide comic strip, contributed the phrase "yellow journalism" to the language. Wearing a bright yellow nightgown on which words were scrawled (forerunners of later balloons), the jug-eared little tough got away with sadism that is no longer permitted. He bashed his pals over the head with a golf club, pummeled a little Negro boy while a goat nibbled his woolly hair. Other kids followed: the Katzenjammers ("Mit dose kidds, society iss nix"), Buster Brown, Little Nemo, and the long-gone Kinder Kids, a strip exquisitely drawn by the cubist...
...Couchette, and head west for San Francisco. But 25-year-old Novelist Beagle, who actually made this trip with a friend two years ago, recounts it with the special magic of the born troubadour. His pen is as agile as his eye, whether summing up Las Vegas in a phrase ("never meant to be seen by day") or invoking the excitement of cross-country scootering: "Jenny and Couchette slide in and out among the cars like moonlight on railroad tracks." An enchanted journey to "the kind of country you dream of running away to when you are very young...
Sardonic or Phrase-Chomping. On second thought, they probably will. Its just that they shouldn't. "The problem," as Matthau accurately puts it, "is that I'm too good." Each of his character creations has a fine-tuned completeness that leaves no room for Matthau the personality to peek through. A gimmick a trademark, an image, Matthau does not have: "People either ask me, 'Are you a television actor? or else, 'Are you from Erie, Pa.?' " Playwright Simon says Matthau is "the greatest instinctive actor I ve ever seen " He has turned in impeccable, widely...