Word: sticked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...college lecture platforms ("an old man mad about writing," he once described himself). As a lecturer at Michigan's Olivet College in the '30s, he reminded one student of Tristram Shandy's garrulous Uncle Toby-a "vast, benevolent and harmless Uncle Toby, leaning on his stick . . . and wheezing out his stories of Henry James as Toby might have spoken of Marlborough. His books seemed [to us] like medals achieved, perhaps, in the Crimea; and we read Auden, Kafka, Evelyn Waugh...
Lowell P. Beveridge '52, president of Y.P.H., predicted that his group would go along with the Progressive Party and not with Wallace. "As for myself," he said, "I can't stick with Wallace's idea of my-country-right-or-wrong...
...Life of Benvenuto Cellini, Stevenson's Kidnapped and a production based on Hamlet in which a child, playing a private detective, will solve the murder of Hamlet's father. The only taboos on the show are still the words "Mom and "kiddies." Says Tripp: "They just stick in my throat." About all that wil] be added are a sponsor (Nestle's Chocolate) and a few more realistic props in the hope that they might, possibly, win over some teenagers...
...Palace at 4:00 a.m., had tickled as many visitors as it puzzled. His new sculpture, City Square, was more serious and therefore harder to take. Giacometti had long since abandoned surrealism to carve tiny classical heads which he carried in his pocket, and progressed from them to stick-figures whose pocked and ragged flesh was stretched elastically upward to the snapping point (TIME, Feb. 2, 1948). City Square disposed five such figures, only a few inches high, on a broad bronze pedestal. All were walking determinedly, and their paths were bound to cross, but their thinness made each seem...
...Harmsworth, but in the first of two 40-mile heats he hit the starting line almost at the crack of the gun, was never headed. Slo-Mo-Shun's 30-ft. rooster-tail wake steadily drew away from Horace Dodge's My Sweetie, Jack Schafer's Stick Crust II, and Harold Wilson's Miss Canada IV. Slo-Mo-Shun's speed over the windswept course was 91.127 m.p.h., a shade under the old record, but fast enough. The winning margin: three miles...