Word: secretly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...home-town newspaper, El Caribe, took fresh heart last week. The 92 pictures of Dominican Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, published on the occasion of his 68th birthday, showed an unsmiling man grey and haggard with age. Trujillo has lost 20 lbs. lately-whether intentionally or not is his own secret. In his 29th year as boss, the dictator has had to cut back on his old candle-burning office schedule at a time when his regime faces mounting problems...
...chief heresies fought by the early Christian church. Basic to all Gnostic sects was the belief that the world was evil, created by a bad god for the express purpose of imprisoning the divine spark which had somehow become vulnerable. Human beings who harbored some of this spark had secret knowledge (gnosis) and could be saved from the world trap by an emissary of the Divine whose mission was to gather up the scattered sparks and smuggle them out of the created universe to Paradise...
...Secret Chuckles. Throughout the U.S., several hundred newsmen spend 30 to 35 generally dreary hours each week watching TV as part of their jobs as critics. They reach an impressive, if not impressionable, newspaper readership that rivals in number the legion of comic-strip fans. The New York Herald Tribune's John Crosby is syndicated in more than 90 papers, the Los Angeles Mirror-News''s Hal Humphrey in 87; in San Francisco...
...wastrel is again James Tyrone, the elder brother who haunted his way through Long Day's Journey into Night: now, he is measurably nearer to the grave which is his best hope. The slut (this time paradoxically endowed with a strange secret of virginity) is a huge, slatternly girl, both proud and ashamed of her physical bulk and power...
...social privileges at the quadrangle, says Lippincott, will be "roughly comparable to those on Prospect Street." While membership in the new quad requires only an application to the Dean's Office, admission to an eating club, however, is through a secret election. But Lippincott insists that Princeton undergraduates do not regard any group as "second-class citizens, or a group set apart." Woodrow Wilson Lodge contains a "damn good, sound cross-sectional group," he says...