Word: waking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Undeserving Battleground. Throughout the week Arkansas' Democratic Congressman Brooks Hays, who had engineered the Newport meeting with President Eisenhower in all good faith, worked tirelessly on Faubus. Said Mrs. Hays: "Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night and find Brooks wide awake, thinking things out." Said Hays: "I felt like the sparrow that flew into the badminton game." Hays spent two hours with Faubus on Monday, four more on Tuesday, three on Wednesday and one on Thursday...
...Department of Agriculture has a bolder hope. If it can identify the root secretion that makes the seeds germinate, it may find a cheap chemical that will do the same. Then a field can be treated before planting, and the seeds of the little red flower will wake up only...
Without benefit of lemon-squeezer, longtime Critic Eliot (The Sacred Wood, After Strange Gods) distills the essential similarities of two works centuries apart, Paradise Lost and Finnegans Wake: "Two books by great blind musicians, each writing a language of his own based upon English." Only once does he commit one of those calculated critical indiscretions of his Young Turk days when he dubbed Hamlet a "failure." Immersed in recent years in the poetic drama, Eliot permits himself the absurdity of suggesting that the early verse plays of Yeats "are probably more permanent literature than the plays of Shaw...
Hives Ready to Swarm. Knox's humor sparked and crackled through everything he did. Writing of the Mass, he remarked that the recurring word or emus (let us pray) "serves as a useful sort of alarm clock to wake us up at various points." Speaking of non-Roman Catholic denominations, he said: "With all respect to them ... all the identity discs in heaven are marked RC." His most widely quoted witticism is also one of the most famed Limericks in the language, kidding Bishop Berkeley's doctrine that things exist only when observed...
...into writing The Velvet Horn, and it shows in the detailed research, the loving re-creation of events and places, the carefully archaic turn of phrase. Long after most readers have forgotten his flamboyant Cropleighs, they will remember such fine set pieces as the marriage of Julia and the wake of Joe Cree with its barbecue, and the excellent sketches of the mountain people, whose folk talk has the pith and point too often lacking in the rest of the novel...