Word: cowardly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Slums. Heart is a gang member's most valued attribute, says Reporter Salisbury, and the coward who "punks out" is likely to be punished by his own gang; the "cheesy," or traitorous, may well be killed. Some gangs sport ladies' auxiliaries, called "debs," who not only supply sexual favors but carry their gangs' weapons as well. In times of peace, the gangs and their debs frequent neighborhood community centers and candy stores. Their favorite pastime: a slow-tempo, pelvis-to-pelvis dance called "the fish...
...Union Jack at us, but even that is little more than a symbol of has-beens and a voice from the past. For good or ill, Bermuda's face is turned westward. To America she looks for protection, to her tourists for her livelihood." New British immigrants (Noel Coward, for instance) are likely to be greeted as nothing but tax dodgers. The phrase "Limey, go home" is not a slur, of course, but "the voice of destiny...
...FINE AND THE WICKED (223 pp.)-Monica Stirling-Coward-McCann...
...book's leading characters are, on the face of it, five heroes and one coward. Major Thomas Thorn-stocky, undistinguished, middle-aged-is the coward. Dur ing his first skirmish, he had crept trembling into a culvert. Partly in deference to his dead father, a crop-thwacking cavalryman, Thorn was not court-martialed. Instead, with thickly sabered irony, he was exiled from his outfit to become a writer of awards for the Medal of Honor. Without cynicism, Commanding General John J. Pershing (in an imaginary conversation) explained to Thorn the pressing need for medal winners: with U.S. entanglement...
...woman prisoner and a fugitive criminal, have a prefabricated, Hollywood patness. But Novelist Swarthout writes in a workmanlike style that only occasionally recalls the toothless tigers of the men's magazines. He explores a dark quadrant of the mind, and if he has not solved its paradoxes-coward's courage and hero's cowardice-it may be because, as he says of Chihuahua, it is a country of no answers...