Word: scans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...proper study of mankind may be man, but writers from Aesop to Kafka to Orwell have found animals just as instructive. The latest to scan human nature in the visage of the beast is French Author Pierre Gascar whose Beasts and Men was published as two separate books in France, one of which (Les Betes) unprecedentedly won both the Prix Goncourt and Prix des Critiques awards in 1953. Very much in the Kafka tradition, Author Gascar has put together in these short stories as mordant and bone-chilling a set of circumstances as modern literature has had to offer since...
...Vision deals with the apocalyptic explosion of a superbomb. Its ghostly passage across the sky startles the animal world. A leopard releases a captured doe, and both cower deep in the underbrush. In the city, men, women and children sleep, while their "leaders and wise men" anxiously scan the heavens, "but it was too late." There is a shudder of light and, in all the raised faces, eyes melt in their sockets...
Bureaucrats scan it for news of their own departments that may still be several memos away; except at the topmost layer, the city's 228,109 public servants depend mostly on the press for what they know about the Government and each other. Bigwigs examine the Post nervously to see how their speeches are played-or to find ideas for new ones. The Washington press corps studies it for tips, ideas and slants that often influence the 500,000 words that clack out of the capital every day to news media all around the world...
Bent on saving money in big as well as little ways in his battle against inflationary government deficits, the President directed his Cabinet ministers to scan departmental budgets and pare away any padding. He expects to cut the overall budget drawn up by the preceding administration by at least...
...years as a bellwether of U.S. belles-lettres, while printing such "firsts" as T.S. Eliot's The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and Carl Sandburg's Chicago, the monthly has struggled along with account books that would never scan. Last July Poetry seemed finally about to die. But last week, in poetry's biggest rescue operation since the Greeks went after Helen, Poetry piled up enough money to buy a carload of shoestrings...