Word: yourselfing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Who in hell are Sinclair Lewis, William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway, anyway? Merely Nobel Prizewinners who have written sentimental slop . . . And Steinbeck-pooh ! A lowly proletarian who drips grief over his characters. Then there's James Gould Cozzens, awarded the Pulitzer Prize, whose quoted utterances reflect flashes of his...
As editor of Home, NBC's do-it-yourself TV "magazine," Arlene has coxswained a varsity crew, gone down in a diving bell and up on a "cat cracker" (oil refiner), and ridden a camel at the Bronx Zoo. She also showed Homemakers how to make cream puffs and...
The trouble with the new boom is that so few maids are well-trained. As the quantity increases, the quality of the work has slipped until U.S. housewives often put up with inefficiency that no businessman would stand for. The washing machine, the mangle, and the modern stove are as...
To the charge that this life is isolated for a man who needs people as raw material, Cozzens retorts: "The thing you have to know is yourself; you are people."
Another show of the kind will be even more unlikely when the lending museums get full reports on some of the difficulties. In high (4,825 ft.), dry Salisbury the humidity at night falls as low as 30%. With his gallery's humidifiers not yet in action. McEwen found...