Word: swifts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...literature a fierce peculiar genius who, in the 40 years before his death last week at 62, achieved recognition as the grand old mandarin of modern British prose and as a satirist whose skill at sticking pens in people rates him a roomy cell in the murderers' row (Swift, Pope, Wilde, Shaw) of English letters. In 15 novels of cunning construction and lapidary eloquence, Evelyn Waugh developed a wickedly hilarious and yet fundamentally religious assault on a century that, in his opinion, had ripped up the nourishing taproot of tradition and let wither all the dear things...
...little more than half an hour after Kenji Kimihara led the four-man Japanese delegation across the Boston Marathon finish line yesterday. Tom Pollard, a second-year Med School student, harbingerd a not not-so-closely-bunched, not-so-swift contingent from Harvard...
Behind his back they call him "GoGo" Goddard, and the nickname becomes more appropriate every day. Since Dr. James Lee Goddard, 42, took over as Commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration early in January, both the agency and the pharmaceutical industry have been rocked by swift and decisive actions designed to give the public greater protection against possibly dangerous drugs. Last week Dr. Goddard was not only on the go with a top-level personnel shake-up but also won a forthright declaration of the President's support...
...Marat/Sade, Inadmissible Evidence, Cactus Flower, Philadelphia, Here 1 Come! And he also has Dolly!, now in its third winter and still running strong. Without Merrick's contributions the dying season, in which plays by Edward Albee (Malcolm), Tennessee Williams (Slapstick Tragedy), and William Inge (Where's Daddy?) succumbed in swift succession, could fairly be declared a calamity and Broadway a disaster area. With Merrick's offerings, 1965-66 will be recorded as a minor sinking spell in the long decline of legit...
...liberalism, it warred on fundamentalism. Then it pioneered in historical criticism of the Bible, developed professional standards for Sunday-school teachers. Later the school was swept by Karl Earth's neo-orthodoxy and Paul Tillich's existential theology. And it was in the library of fortresslike Swift Hall in 1955 that Student Thomas Altizer, now professor of religion at Atlanta's Emory University, came suddenly to the conclusion that "God is dead" for modern society...