Word: doo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Communism is moving ahead on all fronts and will win a "complete and final victory" throughout the world, boasted Nikita Khrushchev last week. This cock-a-doodle-doo reflected his own characteristic buoyancy, as well as the pseudo-scientific Communist theory of inevitability. But the facts of world politics, A.D. 1959, make no such reflection...
...designs on space-are complaining bitterly and effectively that ARPA will be a costly duplication, a fourth service. Presidential Science Adviser James R. Killian is arguing for a plan to turn the ARPA mission over to the independent, efficient National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, headed by Lieut. General Jimmy Doo-little-a plan pushed by both the Navy and the NACA...
...Snap & a Taillight. The baling-wire-and-razor experiments are part of a do-it-yourself program intended to find ways to contrive laboratory equipment from cheap and available materials. The doo-dlers have already produced a strobe unit -a simple optical device for cutting up motion into a series of split-second visual pictures-out of two tongue depressors, the flat top of a tin can, a woman's dress snap and a piece of baling wire. A way of demonstrating wave mechanics was developed by shining an automobile taillight through a window frame of agitated water...
...declamatory and more than most energetic, filled like a great stuffed pie with backward looking happy smiles on the dead and useless bodies (suffocating names, proficiences, and adjectives--states symbolized) revered because they are dead and useless and can't kick. The poet treats these bodies to expressions--Cockadoodle doo!--and then hands them to the strangler who near the end is caught reading The Hudson Review. I overflow on Kenneth Koch because he is alive and seems to exemplify in some ways what the editors have gotten around to saying. He is also clear...
...frats, moreover, have deep roots in Penn's history, and to suggest that they are perhaps a bit archaic is to incur undying hatred from many prominent (and wealthy) alumni. The "old grad" would as soon sacrifice a thousand professors as do away with old Kappa Dappa Doo. Whether or not it likes the system, the University is shackeled to it for the foreseeable future...