Word: unkempt
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...pair recently turned out a book, Lyndon B. Johnson: The Exercise of Power (the New American Library; $7.95), a highly detailed account of the President's ceaseless political maneuvering. Upset at the exposure he gets, Johnson dismisses Evans as "that Stacomb boy," says he can tell when the unkempt Novak is around because he can "smell" him. Still, the Evans-Novak style of reporting does not always make L.B.J. look bad. Like almost all the rest of the press, they took the President to task for the offhand manner in which he announced the appointment of Nicholas deB. Katzenbach...
...Cynthia Ozick's ill-fed, unkempt, rumpled and generally undusted husband, I deny your characterization of her-in your otherwise shining review of Trust [Aug. 12]-as a "housewife." That, God knows...
...Lindsay asked his help on a rewrite of Cole Porter's Anything Goes. "We don't complement, we supplement each other," said Lindsay afterward, and the two went on to conceive twelve plays and musicals locked together in a room, the impeccable, reserved Lindsay pacing, the gentle, unkempt Grouse slumped over the typewriter, each one finishing the other's sentences...
...parades, Greek klama (ritual weeping), Irish wakes-each in their own way fulfill this function. Orthodox Jewish families are supposed to "sit shivah"; for seven days after the burial they stay home, wearing some symbol of a "shredded garment," such as a piece of torn cloth, and keeping an unkempt appearance. Friends bring food as a symbol of the inability of the bereaved to concern themselves with practical affairs. For eleven months sons are enjoined to say the prayers for the dead in the synagogue twice...
Joey Robinson, a spoiled poet who has become a high-level Manhattan publicist, returns to Pennsylvania for a weekend on his mother's farm. With him are his second wife Peggy and Richard, her 11-year-old son. While Joey mows the unkempt fields, the two women guardedly, and then unguardedly, spar over him, a prize that neither of them seems to want as much as they want simply to contest for its possession. The tug of war is academic anyway...