Word: boundless
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Ivey's having a mysterious fit in wartime London (he has them all the time). The Old Country peasant remedy that can save him is known only to the book's heroine, Julie, the suicide's younger sister, a girl of indomitable goodness of heart and boundless puerility. Ben, of course, is on a presidential mission of civilization-shattering importance, but Julie still thinks he is the cad who drove her sister to doom, so she will not help. Or will she? The reader can only wish that F.D.R...
Died. William Saunders Jack, 71, a machinist turned A.F.L. business agent, who in 1940 founded Ohio's Jack & Heintz Inc., makers of aircraft equipment, parlayed a $100,000 initial investment into a Congress-stirring $6,000,000 wartime profit (after taxes) despite boundless employee bonuses (his secretary's 1941 gross: $39,356); after a long illness; in Rancho Santa Fe, Calif...
...alternates appalling melodrama with grisly farce, is now a kind of rancidly self-communing Hamlet, now Venus in a gold wig. The more inhumanly homicidal his acts become, the more inherently suicidal is his mood. Boundless egotism shatters into nihilism, limitless freedom festers into self-imprisonment, until Caligula's assassination at the hands of conspirators is really a welcomed assignation with death...
...spaces give back an atmosphere that makes this a boom with a difference. Uniquely, the movers and shakers share a sense of self-sufficiency (though they live at the mercy of transcontinental railroads and highways), of well-being (though summer temperatures rise to 120° in the shade), of boundless confidence that if the desert can be turned into a thriving oasis nothing in the world is impossible (though they are still pressed by the desert's ancient problem: water...