Word: singularability
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...Singular Ginger. The novelist who is most truly black and funny about sex and death is James Patrick ("Mike") Donleavy, 42, who was born in Brooklyn, educated at Trinity College, Dublin, and now divides his time between London and the Isle of Man. Donleavy succeeds better than any of the others in combining the age-old immediacy of priapic comedy with an excruciatingly contemporary sense of human absurdity. He might best be described as a uniquely modern Aristophanist with an existential horror of death...
...forshadows an even closer relationship between Harvard and Radcliffe, saying "the hour has come for us to cease talk about the College as a singular noun...and to speak rather about the Colleges, for surely Radcliffe has now become an inescapable part of our concern...
...Johnson, had a salutary effect. Arthur Goldberg himself entered the controversy, set up a meeting of Wirtz, Meany and himself. There, Justice Goldberg judiciously suggested that Wirtz rescind his demand that Henning leave. That may change in the future, but for the moment George Meany had chalked up a singular and unusual victory-an outside veto over who goes and who stays in a Government department...
...general's attack on U.S. Ambassador Max Taylor rated headline reaction all over the U.S. (TIME, Jan. 1). By last week, the dust-up seemed to be dying down, but Beverly's story was still a singular achievement for a girl who has yet to be accepted as a regular in Saigon's corps of foreign correspondents and who had been a Tribune correspondent for only two months...
Dorothy Hodgkin's singular achievement was born of a peculiar amalgam of scholarship and domesticity. Her family is scattered now; her husband, whom she married in 1937, is director of the Institute of African Studies in Ghana, where she is now visiting. Her three children are spread among Algeria, Zambia and India. But her old Victorian house in north Oxford still buzzes with her sister's collection of five kids...