Word: tripes
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...since the spring series started in 1956, 163,000 junior and senior high school students on civics-class visits to Washington have come to hear the music. "They're thrilled to be hearing good music," Mrs. May says, "and it's a wonderful contrast to the tripe they hear over the radio all the time...
Leary is the word for Krishna Menon. Delhi Correspondent Charles Mohr endured a scathing but brief attack on TIME during their first interview ("I don't suppose you are responsible for all the tripe that appears in TIME") but in subsequent sessions Menon relaxed, and shared with Mohr one of his birdlike lunches of puffed rice, hot salted nuts and many cups of tea. Perhaps the explanation lies in the answer Menon once gave to a scolding by Nehru's sister, Madame Pandit. "My dear girl," said Menon, "a politician may be either loved or disliked...
...with a ho-ho-ho-hum. Hope, a bestselling spicy storyteller, undertakes to investigate the sexual habits of the suburban female. Turner, a typical suburban female, gives aid and comfort. At the fade, Hope has his book, Turner has her man, and the customer has a question: Is this tripe necessary...
...Troika Tripe. By far the biggest stumbling block is the Soviet's demand for a veto. The U.S.S.R. insists that any ban on nuclear tests be policed by a three-headed international commission composed of a Russian, an American and a "neutralist"-any one of whom could veto any action toward inspection. The Soviets call this lovely notion "troika" (see THE WORLD). The West calls it tripe. Says the British delegate at Geneva, Sir Michael Wright: "Troika ends hopes for a nuclear test ban, for controlled disarmament, and-worse still-for any kind of international peace-keeping machinery. This...
They were never so lucky before, and they certainly were far less adept. But to judge from MacDonald's collection, four centuries have yielded some intelligent and ingenious parodies as well as a lot of tripe. Wordsworth, Browning, and Swinburne, have paid well for their more curious mannerisms of style. J. K. Stephen cautiously and respectfully parodies Browning in a poem of "sincere flattery" that ends...