Word: squeamishness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only fitfully rational, blurredly watches the breakup. It takes the form of a mania for light. At night, huddled sleeplessly in bomb-crushed cellars, the men crave candles. They try scraping wax from ration boxes, but the lights they make burn only for seconds. Then a replacement shows up, squeamish in combat but eerily skillful at finding large quantities of wax. He guards his secret, but the obsessed men find it out: the wax comes from holy figures in household shrines and churches...
...both God and Mama." Shannon's explanation of his adult behavior is that he "got back at God by preaching atheistical sermons and got back at Mama by starting to lay young girls.'' Then there is what Williams calls "the dunghill speech," a not-for-the-squeamish passage in which Shannon relates to Hannah how he once saw the natives of an unnamed country scavenge a dung heap for undigested food. In the internal logic of the play, the speech is fully justified, for Shannon is testing Hannah and her previously stated creed that "nothing human disgusts...
...Squeamish diners have long made spoon polishing a nervous ritual, and almost everywhere a dirty café is called a "greasy spoon." But an investigation of restaurant hygiene in Connecticut has shown that, of all dinnerware, the spoon is most to be trusted; it is the bar glass that is furthest from grace. In swab tests conducted in nearly 1,000 restaurants, investigators found high bacteria counts on bar glasses "almost commonplace." A count of 100 bacteria per utensil is thought to be a safe level; bar glasses regularly approached counts of 3,000. And spoons were almost uniformly clean...
...evening should be an interesting, if not a particularly pleasant one for the squeamish in the group. UConn starts at center Ed Slomcenski, who towers 6 ft., 11 in. At forward the starters are Walt Griffin, 6 ft. 6 in., and Bob Haines, 6 ft. 7 in. The guards are closer to normal. Len Carlson and Andy Cxuchry are six feet even, but Carlson somehow managed to be highscorer with 22 points Saturday when the Huskies beat Yale...
Beautiful Wrinkles. Eakins was almost too honest for his own good. His great medical paintings, the Agnew Clinic and the Gross Clinic-the most daring works of their kind since Rembrandt's Anatomy Lesson-so horrified the squeamish critics that some began calling him "a butcher." His paintings of boaters, swimmers and boxers-superb studies of water and muscle in motion-scorned the theatricality of the Hudson River school. His portraits were so penetrating that few prominent Philadelphians would even sit for him. One man explained: "He would bring out all the traits of my character that I have...