Word: wounded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Poles," is a saying that went the rounds last fall. Vast differences in the two nations' situations make direct analogy unfair, but the crack spotlights the contrast between the two cardinals: Hungary's hothearted, unbending Mindszenty, who fought a brave but disastrous battle with the Communists and wound up with the propaganda blunder of taking refuge in the American embassy; and Poland's coolheaded, intellectual Wyszynski, who emerged from three years' imprisonment with the will and the words to calm a people that was spoiling for the barricades...
...Wound & the Beau. Behaving like her own very private eye on the spoor of a family scandal, Mary McCarthy gives the reader facts about her early self. She was born in Seattle in 1912, daughter of Roy ("poor Roy," the family called him) McCarthy, an Irish-American lawyer. Mary was early conscious of the special Irish-American quality of traditional resentment, liberation, and (on emigration) emergence into a new minority. Furthermore, her family history was complicated not only by a scattering of Protestants but by that Jewish grandmother. The Irish and the Jews, most self-conscious of immigrants, set their...
Then occurred the kind of event which her second husband, Critic Edmund Wilson, in The Wound and the Bow considered decisive to the character of a writer-the wound for which a life of writing must compensate. In the flu epidemic of 1918 Mary McCarthy's parents died, and she was an orphan in a strange bed in a strange city-Minneapolis. Mary and her brothers were condemned to razorstrop beatings in the downstairs lavatory by a hated uncle. Her Uncle Myers is now dead, but the narrative of life under his hateful roof (presents were taken away because...
While he was being treated at the hospital for a head wound, the police removed a slip of paper from his jacket, photostated it, and returned the paper to the jacket--all unknown to Costello, who was explaining that he "did not have an enemy in the world." The slip of paper listed winnings and I.O.U.'s from an unspecified casino and slot machines, the total being nearly one million dollars...
...five trading days last week, Wall Street was warmed by a continuance of the spring rise in stocks. The Dow-Jones industrial average climbed 6.04 points to within a point of the year's high of 498.56 before being nipped by profit-taking. As it stood, stocks wound up the week at 497.54, some 43 points higher than the low for the year. Main reason: a continuing chorus of cheery first-quarter earnings reports...