Word: twists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...interpreted as distorted dream-figures, the grotesquely magnified bogeys out of a fairy tale. . . . In a piece written for All the Year Around, Dickens asked: 'Are not the sane and insane equal at night as the sane lie a dreaming?'" Rosenberg analyses the grotesque, distorted humor of Oliver Twist and relates it to Dickens' later work...
...Kermit Gordon, 44, members of the Council of Economic Advisers. Shy, brilliant, three-degree (A.B., M.A., Ph.D.) Harvardman Tobin is Sterling Professor of Economics at Yale and a specialist in statistical analysis of consumer purchasing. A believer in federal spending, he stands in economic thinking just a slight twist to the right of Council Chairman Walter Heller. Rhodes Scholar Gordon-the fourth Rhodes scholar for the New Frontier team, after Dean Rusk, Treasury Under Secretary Robert Roosa, Charles Hitch-also did graduate work at Harvard, took leave from his professorship at Williams College last January to be director of economic...
...Charles A. Lindbergh. At times, the Man of the Year has been a symbolic figure (the American fighting man in Korea, 1950; the Hungarian Freedom Fighter, 1956), a woman (Queen Elizabeth, 1952), or even a couple (Generalissimo and Madame Chiang Kaishek, 1937). This year tradition takes a new twist: for the first time, the cover belongs to the Men of the Year-15 brilliant Americans, exemplars of the scientists who are remaking man's world...
...make a Kennedy cocktail: three parts Old Fitzgerald, one part holy water, add a twist of Norman Vincent Peale...
...Balkans afire by assassinating Marshal Tito. The wandering innocent who runs afoul of and eventually vanquishes these unpleasant plotters is an American architect named Strang. His wily adversary is a monster of plumbless evil who calls himself Odysseus-and the author does not fail to borrow a plot twist from Homer. The counter and under-the-counter intelligence agents of several countries haven't a clue about who Odysseus really is. Storyteller Maclnnes casts some forthright foreshadows, but it takes Strang and the reader most of the book to uncover the blackguard, just in time to save the President...