Word: smashes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...interesting to note that in the photograph of Kwame Nkrumah he is holding aloft an egg. This is one of his favorite symbols, "the egg of power." If one holds it too lightly, it will drop and smash; if one holds it too hard, it will break in one's hand. Osagyefo, of course, says that he knows exactly how to hold...
...Scranton sees it, is that "it is a party of dreams, on the one hand, and of reaction on the other. The party when it dreams has noble thoughts of shining cities, equal opportunities and social progress. The party when it governs is hamstrung by its reactionaries, who smash the dreams and leave the political landscape strewn with the broken promises of a deadlocked party...
...that was the Ziegfeld era in the Pleistocene epoch. Modern Broadway is different. Chorus lines, even in musicals, are depleted, and those old self-made audience libertines have turned into relatively timid expense-account types who go, in a big verbal way, for the unattainable elf of the smash light comedy -the bright and blue-jeaned breed of girl that can make a man of 50 start reading the Village Voice...
Once again Awori bashed his ankle in the hurdles, hitting the second barrier hard in the 60-yard race, and colliding with the last one in a smash-up that sent him sprawling on all fours at the finish. The Ugandan star finished third behind sophomore Touy Lynch and Dartmouth's Jim Season...
Throughout Aiken's writing we witness the human tendency toward self-destruction. "We specialize in smash-ups," says Andren Cather, the drunken hero of Great Circle. "If there's anything we dearly love, it's a nice little smash-up." This aspect of life is sharply portrayed in Blue Voyage. The hero, Demarest, speaks of a love he will never recapture: "There's no concealing the suffering it has brought, that frightful and inescapable and unwearying consciousness of the unattainable...