Word: unpacks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...writers can get away with first-degree malice as well as Perelman: "I drew a deep breath, brushed a small, many-legged Arab off my sleeves and went down to unpack." Most of the other lines, though, could have been written for Groucho Marx and perhaps were: "I was tempted to fling him a lakh of rupees with a princely gesture. Not knowing how many ru pees there were to a lakh, though, I had to content myself with the princely gesture...
...Douglas MacArthur and his aide Dwight Eisenhower ride off to disperse this pitiful army on the Anacostia flats. New Dealer Abe Fortas came down as a kid lawyer out of Yale in the summer of 1933. He arrived in the Department of Agriculture with his suitcase and did not unpack it for three days and nights. He stayed right there working round the clock on a program to help save the food processors, some of whom sat in the office with him. They were frightened, humbled men. In the streets wherever Fortas walked were hungry, helpless people. No bureaucrat escaped...
...systematically demanding bribes," the defendants face maximum sentences of 10 years in prison. Meanwhile, life goes on at Warsaw's leading hotels. At the Bristol last week, TIME Correspondent Strobe Talbott reports, he was propositioned three times by phone from the lobby before he had time to unpack in his room...
...course, some of the reviewers have made too much of this. Segal's fairy tale has more staggering implications for the GNP than it does for literature. College bookstores are peddling the paperback by the carton, no longer pretending even to unpack the crates...