Word: stabbingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...army at an underage 17. As a postwar tractor-factory worker, he voraciously read detective novels until he was decoyed one day by the title Crime and Punishment, which revealed to him that "one could 'put into thoughts' things which happened inside us." After a two-week stab at the Sorbonne, Andre was profoundly disillusioned with education. For a year he read nothing, then furiously scribbled five, and scrapped four, versions of The Last of the Just in four years...
...with you") or breezy and old ("Vat 69-that's the Pope's telephone number"), it's easy to make too little of The Hostage, to call it mere tongue-in-cheekiness, a jolly but self-indulgent romp. And as, amid shenanigans, there comes a sudden stab to the heart or a surface shot that plumbs the depths, it is perhaps easy to make too much of it, to find its anarchic flings an assay of an ill-governed world, its rancid taste an assault on respectability. Less than a philosopher and more than a buffoon, Behan...
...Edith Green and Charles Porter, State Senator Monroe Sweetland, even Maurine Neuberger (who won the nomination to succeed her late husband, Richard E. Neuberger, in the Senate)-were in Kennedy's camp. And this, in the Morse code, was nothing less than high treason. In bitter terms ("a stab in the back," "betrayal of party trust"), he denounced his fellow Democrats, vowed to seek revenge. The wounds will not heal quickly, and Wayne Morse is likely to find himself without political support when he runs for re-election to the Senate in 1962-an inviting prospect for Republican Governor...
...possible." Lesley Ann Brown also wanted to help others: "I would buy an airplane and take up as many friends as I could." James Hough would wait in the garden: "I would pray that it would land in the sea and do no damage." One girl decided to stab herself to death with a carving knife ("It would be quicker that way"). Billy Peart wrote stoutly: "I would make sure we could press the button which would send our rockets back to Russia...
...play makes a needle stab at philosophy and theology. "If man is transparent," one hophead wonders, "like how do you account for his shadow?" Another junky sagely says that there isn't any Big Connection ("I am your man if you come to me. You are my man if I go to you"). And when the connection finally arrives, he is a Christlike Negro all in white, with empathy even for squares...