Word: squatting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Synopsis: In the last episode, Biff Bundie, University Police undercover man disguised as graduate student Kevin Steddard Heath, found himself hot on the trail of a squat and anxious-looking foreigner whom Biff had reason to believe was somehow connected with a horrible murder that had just been discovered in Mallinkredt. In his office, Bundie received a phone call from the foreigner, who told Biff to meet him at once, saying cryptically "no brents rhinotceros," Bundie's immediate idea, that the Bronse Rhinoceros was a coffee shop, fell apart, and he became convinced that the phrase must be an undergraduate...
...squat, angular jet looks ugly as a beetle with quadruple goiters, but airmen on both sides of the Atlantic were studying its unusual shape last week with unusual interest. U.S. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara's announcement that the U.S. will contribute some $35 million toward further development of Britain's P-1127 airplane made it clear that the odd craft is well in front in the race to develop a VTOL (Vertical Take-Off and Landing) plane...
AYME'S novel strikes one immediately as an altogether different sort of thesis. The Empty Canvas presented a figure too weary to be consistently ironic, like a Jamesian European sick of looking at the Catskills; The Conscience of Love throws a squat, unprepossessing narrator into a preposterous muddle of satire, false pathos, and genuine evil. One senses the irony stretching nearly to parody from the first paragraph...
...their way of dealing simple concern with which most writers are stuck whether want it or not: what can be from the century and its though wars. Moravia has escaped by Dino, who is beyond being by the problem; Ayme his trust in the squat, stolid Martin. We should have had from Ayme if he had made fabulous and more human, but after all very likely impossible. only immediate conclusion one at is that love can be a often cloying study, boredom...
...utilitarian func tions from human functions," i.e., truck and service traffic are separated from other traffic by use of the underground truck roads and the underground garage. Second, "the ideal city should fulfill the needs of variety and diversity." Midtown intermingles old and new buildings, tall ones and squat ones, and there is space for a post office, playground and a new auditorium. Third, there must be "improved environmental quality," by which he means the air-conditioned 20th century town square, complete with its fountain and sculptures...