Word: swallowers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...jungle and wild scrub country of Primavera, Paraguay, these professional and office workers from the big cities of Europe struggled against climate, sickness, isolation and uncleared land. They learned to practice forbearance with one another, but not to swallow the personal resentments that were bound to arise: they made a rule that any member who is angry at another must quietly have it out with him before he goes to bed that night. They learned to find emotional outlets with festivals conducted with singing, dancing and theatricals, games and wine. They learned how to select the right...
...common salt, oxygen and water, which "can kill you if you get too much of them." But, he adds, "to absorb a lethal amount of fluoridated water would require drinking 50 bathtubfuls at a sitting ... To produce even the mildest symptoms of fluoride poisoning would require that the victim swallow two-and-a-half bathtubfuls . . . during a single...
Three weeks ago Christian Democratic Premier Adone Zoli ringingly announced that he would not accept office on the strength of Fascist votes. Last week, in a performance that left even connoisseurs of political agility openmouthed, Zoli announced that he was, after all, prepared to swallow one little Fascist vote...
...were told what to do, like in school." Actress Kim Stanley, in another excellent performance, was the adulterous wife who talked about the supreme confidence of her first husband, a Pennsylvania politician, who "fights the blizzards and the floods for you, beats the world off when it rises to swallow you up." To her cheap lover, Lloyd Bridges, she said: "I see in you the governor of a great state." These thematic straws did not interfere with the brutal clash of character, and the clash is what made the TV play exciting. Against the seedy raffishness of a steamy Staten...
Total Security. The mock-hero of Author Ernst Pawel's From the Dark Tower unintentionally reminds the reader that Jonahs as well as Ahabs go looking for their private whales. Abe Rogoff is a middle-aged Jonah just asking to be swallowed. For ten years he has been a snickering outsider ("to take business seriously is a kind of disease") camouflaged as a docile insider in the pseudo-Gothic spires of Manhattan's Tower Mutual Life Insurance Co. Abe's disease might be diagnosed as undulant barricade fever, the nostalgic complaint of an ex-free-lover...