Word: clean
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...became very exercised about morality when Charles Van Doren put on his show of contrition. But our indignation would be better founded, and more credible, if we also managed to muster a few olfactory shudders about the garbage in our own backyard. Better yet, we might even try to clean...
...Clean Sweep. In Milwaukee, when the Milwaukee county board discovered that 15 volumes of its records were missing, Courthouse Janitor Harry Stys sheepishly returned them, explained that he had borrowed them to check the voting record of his opponent in the election race for, county board supervisor...
...number of things, from electric trains (five in the basement) and cats (there were once 17) to archaeology and tennis. He speaks half a dozen languages and is a prolific writer of books (eleven), sermons and speeches. Says former Mills President Lynn White: "He can turn out 24 clean limericks an hour." Says another colleague: "George Hedley can call more bishops and baseball players by their first names than anyone else I know. He is like St. Paul in meeting people where they are. He is all things to all men without...
ACROSS PARIS AND OTHER STORIES, by Marcel Aymé. Even in translation, these are the year's best short stories. French Author Aymé tells about seemingly ridiculous or fantastic situations in which ordinary Frenchmen find themselves lost. Wit and clean writing save him-if not his characters-at every turn...
...timid professor. One of the most appealing things about him is his interest and enthusiasm over the minor occurrences in his life. A simple rain storm was as apt to inspire him to comment as his "God, who winds our sundials." "It rained so hard the pigs got clean and the people dirty." Or in a line which interested him as it has always interested men: "His beatings showed a sort of sex drive: he beat only his wife...