Word: unicorn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Murdoch Unicorn...
...LADY ORMSBY GORE. Invitations bearing the lion-and-unicorn crest have long been coveted in official Washington, and Sylvia ("Cissie") Ormsby Gore can have anybody she wants to dinner. In tact, she could probably have everybody, for the massive British embassy is among the world's largest and gets one ot the fattest entertainment-and-housekeeping allowances anywhere ($94,680). Sir David knows the President from the days when Joseph Kennedy was Ambassador to London, sails with him on the Honey Fitz and is friendly with most of the Administration's other key people. Cissie prefers having twelve...
...UNICORN (311 pp.)-Iris Murdoch-Viking...
...make love in a recumbent church bell. Further, the entertainments are pleasantly foggy with the mists that rise off deep psychological and intellectual waters. The characters rarely do more than waggle their toes in these depths, but the feeling is conveyed that they are all excellent swimmers. In The Unicorn, her seventh novel, the author unwisely grows impatient with toe dipping. She pitches her characters into the murkiest of the soul's dark waters, and leaps in after them. But the water proves to be not deep but merely cloudy...
...most picturesque coffee house in town is the Unicorn, nestled in a basement opposite the new Prudential Center on Boylston St. Unfortunately, the entertainment here is not as high in quality as the pine-paneling or the interior decorating. Undoubtedly it is the most professional of Boston's coffee-houses. It has the highest cover charge--$2.00 on weekends and $1.50 on week nights. Often it gets outstanding acts like the Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem, but all too often the acts are slick folkum and just plain don't swing...