Word: sort
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Should've wrecked that old shack years ago," observed one. "I sort of liked it," said another timidly. "Progress," announced a third, "progress respects no sentiment...
...more to do with 'scholarship.' " Nor is the emerging Ph.D. "what we mean by an educated man, a man who combines wide-ranging learning with an attitude of simplicity and vividness, and who commingles good taste with an excited curiosity. Rather, he likely has become a sort of expert plumber in the card catalogues . . . and neither as teacher nor scholar will he throw off this inhibiting heritage...
...Pacific island called Tulura. Theirs not to reason why. Theirs but to dream of the bounding main as they stare at the waves in the water-cooler, arid to suffer in silence one of the subtler horrors of war: Lieut. Commander Clinton T. Nash (Fred Clark), a sort of sugar-coated Queeg. This pill is secretly known, to those who have to take him. as "Marblehead" ("And not just because he is bald"). In civilian life Marblehead was a broker (Merrill Lynch, Pierce. Fenner & Beane), and he got himself a direct commission "without the corrupting effect of any intervening naval...
...money and class. The title story, A Bit Off the Map, is the personal narrative of Kennie, one of the loose-jawed, tight-jeaned set known in London as Teddy boys, who falls in with a crew of intellectuals. They are dismal London versions of Greenwich Village nihilists-a sort of intellectual Jimson weed that sprouted amid the unfilled bomb craters of postwar London. Says Reg, a novelist: "We'll light such a blaze that all their nice little civilised fire engines won't be able...
...knows what he is getting at; his illusions are shattered when she puts an Elvis Presley record on her gramophone. In More Friend Than Lodger, Wilson plots a triangle, not only of marital infidelity but of social insecurity, involving a stuffy publisher, his disarmingly bitchy wife and a handsome sort of literary confidence man-a triangle in which the woman adds up all the angles and makes the sum come out to a lot more than...