Word: yen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...money to fetch him back. A few years later he was handed over permanently to a guardian-an atheist who wanted "something, as we say, to 'lavish his love upon.' " O'Connor embraced "bohemianism. surrealism and D. H. Lawrence." Between a weakness for Communism, a yen for "snatches of Nietzsche," and the desire to be both "a Messiah" and a wolf, he turned into a fantastic "actor" who studied his various faces in the mirror and chose the one he would wear as carefully as a dandy choosing a suit...
Stereophonic sound, in its taped infancy the plaything of audiophiles with a yen for hearing a realistic pingpong ball, seems ready to make itself heard in the mass record market. Last week Columbia Records removed the only obstacle to industry agreement on standards for new stereo records by announcing that it had set aside its own, different, version of a sound-in-the-round disk...
...indiscriminate listener with brass ears, plenty of time on his hands and a normal yen for sleep, could sit down ber fore his hi-fi set and work through the whole literature of LP-recorded sound (as far as generally available in the U.S.) in roughly 3½ years. To keep him up to date, he would want a 204-page catalog published monthly by William Schwann of Boston. In the ten years since LPs started flooding the market, the Schwann Long Playing Record Catalog has become a fascinating indication of music consumption in the vinyl era. Last week...
...Japanese are a highly emotional people, they love to take pills, and they like to imitate Western customs. These factors create a rich market for tranquilizers. Last week Tokyo's Welfare Ministry reported that in 1957 the Japanese went wild for "tranki," poured out yen to the tune of $3.5 million for meprobamate alone. They were buying tranki without prescription at any handy drugstore, and swallowing them under the nerve-racking prodding of a hypertonic advertising campaign...
Fight for the Hilton. One luxurious casino is still to open, in the 630-room Havana Hilton Hotel, now abuilding, and New York police have documents showing that Racketeer Anastasia wanted to muscle in on Havana gambling. But if Anastasia had a yen to get control of the Havana Hilton casino, Meyer Lansky was equally set on keeping him out. A Lansky agent, Joseph Silesi, turned up among the 13 groups that went to Hilton Hotels International with bids to run the casino...