Word: preferably
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...EARLY GRAVE, by Wallace Markfield. On a kind of comic Volkswagen odyssey through Brooklyn, four Greenwich Village intellectuals search for the funeral of a compatriot and discover themselves: pathetic, rather pretentious fellows who at heart prefer the cult of Humphrey Bogart to the cult of the Partisan Review...
...fine day for the races, though most folks his age might prefer that old rocking chair, and so Sunny Jim Fitzsimmons, who retired as a trainer last year, bustled off to New Jersey's Monmouth Park to hear the crowd roar "Happy Birthday" and share his 90th cake with 20 great-grandchildren. "It's a lucky thing I had the horse bug," confided the man who trained Gallant Fox and Omaha, Nashua and Bold Ruler, recalling the days when his mother-in-law wanted him to work as a streetcar conductor. "I was sending home more money from...
...Alexander Brunschwig of Manhattan's Memorial Hospital has literally disemboweled hundreds of patients during the past 17 years. In almost every case, the list of organs he has removed would seem to be a surely lethal loss. But Brunschwig's viscerations - or pelvic exenterations, as surgeons prefer to call the incredibly drastic operations -have been a startlingly successful effort to save lives after all hope was gone...
...Francisco Attorney Melvin Belli is no admirer of the American Bar Association to which he belongs, or of its president, Walter E. Craig. Self-styled defender of unpopular causes, Belli has voluble and repetitive contempt for lawyers who prefer corporate problems to trial work, and as he sees it, Craig exemplifies the prosperous defenders of vested interests...
...system of group and individual tutorials have been set up. The meetings are quite informal and unstructured, and the participants decide on the reading they will do. Freud and Erikson have been very popular, though several of the tutorials prefer to discuss some of the questions that the state-law-required high school communism course never quite got around to covering. Still other groups read plays...