Word: sainte
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...counselor of the embassy and worked with futile desperation to head off American participation in World War I. Later he became chairman of the Examining Board for the State Department's Division of Foreign Service Personnel, where he became a sort of career-service saint in his emphasis on the need for trained professional men rather than political hacks. He wryly told candidates: "You gentlemen have a very easy time entering the service. All you have to do is to answer a few questions. I had to shoot a tiger...
Take Niki de Saint-Phalle, 34, for instance. She was born Agnes, looked demure on a LIFE cover in 1949 while a Park Avenue postdeb, and then, calling herself Niki, turned into one of the nutty art world's most charming cashews. Refining action painting, which was supposed to spread the oils around, she hit the target in 1960 by attaching bags of paint to canvases, then blasting them with her .22-cal. rifle. Now that the quick-draw days are over, she has popped back into fashion with hairy sculptures tattooed with more images, inscriptions and plain gunk...
...possession of the 30,000-sq.-mi. island toward the end of the 18th century. Concentrating on the western third of the mountainous land, the French brought in thousands of colonists, and with them came vast numbers of Negro slaves from Africa. The French called their Caribbean possession Saint Domingue, termed it the "Queen of the Antilles." So it was. In the 1780s, its foreign trade approached $140 million a year, with vast profits from sugar, coffee, cocoa, cotton and indigo flowing back home. Before long, 40,000 whites were lording it over 450,000 blacks. Then one night...
...would be unloved and forgotten, be reasonable." His heart smolders with love for the unlovable-volunteer fire men, science-fiction writers, the entire population of Rosewater County, Ind., his ancestral seat. To them, he disburses much money and all of himself. Author Vonnegut casts Rosewater as a misbegotten saint in a world that puts saints to the stake. Beyond that point lurks another: that goodness ought to have its head examined for trying to coexist with evil. In this book, his sixth, Vonnegut clearly establishes his kinship to the late Nathanael West, and Eliot Rosewater could easily pass...
JUDITH is more sensualist than saint in Jean Giraudoux's version of the apocryphal tale of the beautiful Jewess who saved Israel by killing an Assyrian general. Rosemary Harris' Judith suggests all the contradictions and fascination of the minx who became a myth...