Word: properity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...indeed be literally translated as "With seven nurses the child has no eye." However, it does not mean at all that the child in question goes blind, even in one eye. Rather it simply indicates that the child is without proper supervision, since no nurse keeps an eye on him, relying in that respect on other nurses...
...Marx Brothers at the Movies, (text by Zimmerman, graphics by Goldblatt) restores the team to its proper prominence. Customarily, the most static objects in the world are books about movies; pictures float by on oceans of turgid or fawning prose, while the subject drowns. In The Marx Brothers at the Movies the text is as good as the pictures. The still ones, that is; nothing can quite match the films. Zimmerman shows just how much Groucho could inscribe on the head of a pun: "This is indeed a gala day. That's plenty. I don't think...
...young Carroll, the second of four sons in a proper Philadelphia family, went on from the University of Pennsylvania to take a law degree at Dickinson School of Law and work for a year in a large Philadelphia firm. When he found law incompatible, he turned to civic projects?the Robin Hood Dell concerts, the Philadelphia Grand Opera Company?and when the Depression struck, helped feed, clothe and house Philadelphia's unemployed. Under Miss Adams' influence Carroll had been trying his hand at horoscopes, and now he began to do them for the unemployed. He was impressed, he says...
...life. I realize it is a failure. One photograph, when the time is right, is the complete record and the essence, while the collection is a meaningless shamble. Nevertheless I admit I am incapable of staying at the right time, rather I am incapable of maintaining the proper state of mind to absorb the complete record and the essence of each moment, each photograph. And I know other people can't. And I want them to know they can't and that it is possible that they could. I want them to try. So I've decided on this collection...
Venice rotted and went stormy with the end of summer. The last days were bittersweet like the cigarette of a man about to die. Champagne at dawn and sleep through the day. The most proper Englishman of all, burdened by a suspicion of having danced nude at breakfast, did not show himself again. Not many of us said good-bye. There was too much "see you around" in that...