Word: washout
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dust for a Washout. Though he calls his own life a "washout," Fernand sees nothing better to envy in the lives of others. To him, ambition, love, fame, beauty, wealth are all illusions before the all-encompassing reality of death ("Dust is the messenger of God in the world")-"All is vanity" is not exactly a new philosophy, but it is a valid one. However, in Ecclesiastes it is a philosophy to live by, enhancing the precious value of life's passing moments. In Five A.M., it is interpreted as degrading life to the level of a futile, nihilistic...
...Washout. In Benton, Ky., the city council passed an ordinance setting a $5 fine for "shooting, firing or squirting a water pistol inside city limits," set a $25 fine on water-pistol vending...
...freshman baseball team, seeking its eighth win of the season, will travel to Andover today to replay a contest originally scheduled for yesterday. Harvey Friedman, slated to hurl in yesterday's washout, will probably go again today. Larry McCulley will catch Friedman, and Captain Levon Kasarjian will lead the Yardlings at shortstop...
...Which is always attached to "through express trains running on time; Mr. McGinnis never uses the commuter trains," a spokesman explained recently, denying newspaper stories that the car was on a commuter train stalled for 69 minutes by 1) a washout, 2) engine failure, and 3) bridge construction...
...even a show that sells nothing is not a washout for Stix. Says he: "A show is a necessary part of the development of any artist. He needs to communicate." Last week Stix was developing a lot of artists: on the first day of his new show, 75 drawings were sold; by week's end only 77 were left. And to Hugh Stix's great delight, the relative unknowns were selling as well as the anonymous bignames...