Word: wallful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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TIME'S perceptive Nov. 16 indictment of a "shocking state of rottenness . . . deplorable level of public morality . . ." finds a most eloquent echo in the Wall Streeters' urge for those solid-gold golf putters at $1,475 apiece. Follow the leader, anyone...
...years of research by its staff. Its contention: Van der Lubbe did it alone after all. Der Spiegel pictures him as a warped idealist of more than ordinary intelligence whose strange courtroom behavior-alternately listless or roaring with laughter-resulted from "many months in solitary confinement, chained to the wall with a bright electric light burning day and night...
...Britain's Parliament the Economist is read and followed so widely that it is sometimes called "the alternative government." In the U.S. it is quoted more often in the press than any other foreign publication. It is considered required reading on Wall Street and Capitol Hill; the Central Intelligence Agency alone gets 200 air-expressed copies weekly. Few statesmen pass up Economist invitations to lunch in the Honky-Tonk, the staff's irreverent name for the restaurant in the basement of the Economist's London headquarters on Ryder Street...
...dark and stormy night. The Sea Witch, a salvager out of Southampton, was riding out the Channel gale as a tight ship should. Suddenly, out of the night, a vast shape reared above the tiny vessel. With a gasp the helmsman spun the wheel. A wall of water smashed the Sea Witch broadside, hurling her clear of a big freighter, which "slid by like a cliff." Looking up, the skipper (Charlton Heston) saw no lights on the freighter, no sign of life on the bridge. On the stern he read the rusty legend...
Another alumnus has suggested that Quincy residents be allowed to vote whether the graffito should remain or be painted out. This is impossible, however, for one engaging feature of a rudely scratched inscription is that it sits there, rudely scratched, until a new wall is constructed. No, whitewashing is not the answer to Quincy's digestive problems. The graffito will have to remain untroubled, until another alumnus with a sense of humor donates a curtain to hang in front...