Word: yen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Doomed to be as persistent as the aura of myth surrounding the origin of the cry, "Rhinehart," is that Hearst expressed his art-collecting yen too early and too casually. In short, his gift to several professors of their visages etched on the bottom of chamber-pots proved that the Harvard of President Eliot did not have the hinterland sense of humor...
Whatever the reasons for their choice, however, the old car enthusiasis seem a perennial part of the Harvard scene, and though styles may change, the yen goes on forever. If one comes back to Cambridge in 1971, chances are a few '51 oars will be seen creeping around the Quincy Square traffic circle and growing mellower by the houses...
...Century-Fox) tries to play schizophrenia for belly laughs and proves that psychiatry can be mangled as witlessly in a comedy as in melodrama. Its heroine (Loretta Young) is a primly correct girl whose subconscious, taking possession while she sleeps, turns her into a somnambulant femme fatale with a yen for a stuffy lawyer (Joseph Gotten...
...yen for a circus impresario's wife gets him his strangest task. Thanks to her, he signs on as a lion tamer, finds that his job is to lie down with a beefsteak on his chest and let a lion eat the steak. A dress rehearsal and one performance cool his ardor for the impresario's wife. It turns out that the impresario uses her as a regular decoy to line up human steak platters. Between catastrophes, H. Hatterr asks himself the perennial questions of philosophy, some piffling, some reaching toward profundity: "Why is an evening paper published...
...country, reports Ed King, our subscription service general manager. Already some of our peripatetic readers are heading across the country to favorite vacation spots, but most are simply planning to shift northward or waterward away from hot cities and their suburban rims. Even West Coasters, who show less yen to move with the seasons than anybody else, are scheduling some trips into the Pacific Northwest. In the East, Cape Cod remains the traditional favorite, with all of northern New England again due for visits by many TIME subscribers. King also notes that across the country TIME-reading students and teachers...