Word: randomly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...grown beyond the conn of single powers like the Chamber of Commerce or even the select, sacred California Club, whose once-powerful members coached the city from the sidelines (and relegated newsmen-even Timesmen-to the rear elevators of its pink brick sanctuary on South Flower Street). Instead, any random list of the most influential Southern Californians would include both native sons and latecomers whose only connection with each other is that they find themselves appointed more or less to the same civic committees. For example...
...chosen few who could afford its haughty hospitality." The raffish oddballs who people the Dennis-Erskine hotel are pretty special, and would have raised Krafft-Ebing's interest if not his eyebrows. There is T. J. Sturt III, a millionaire alcoholic who wears a pink girdle and phones random city fire departments to announce blazes of mysterious origin. There is seventyish L. Harvey Crull Jr., who puts under doors pamphlets announcing the Second Coming and chases upstairs maids into enclosed fire escapes. The hotel manager himself is a puffy homosexual who sleeps in "the very bed Madame Pompadour...
...churches more crowded, or have they gained new members? The tourist-attracting Marble Collegiate Church of the Rev. Dr. Norman Vincent Peale finds its attendance up and notes a rise in new members referred from Crusade headquarters. But a random check of churches around town turns up little to indicate that New York City's permanent population of Protestants (7.5% of 8,000,000) is being significantly affected. In a representative sample of 37 of the city's 1;7OO Protestant churches, three churches report a total of eight new members, two report a slight increase in attendance...
ORIGINAL SIN (179 pp.)-Giose Rima-nelli-Random House...
...TOV/N (371 pp.)-William Faulkner-Random House...