Word: erraticism
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With travels East and West, books in his kitchen, and reams of brilliance in a shopping bag, Nock leads an active, many-sided life, ordered amid the helter-skelter. Choosing the scholar's monastic life, he has in his erratic, diverse way filled an essentially lonely pattern with lifelong friendships...
"The success of the London Daily Mirror," lamented the staid London Economist, "is a sore reflection upon a democracy, sometimes called educated, that prefers its information potted, pictorial, and spiced with sex and sensation." Nevertheless, just that style of journalism has made the Mirror the biggest daily in the world...
To get there, some of the Big Four had their rough moments: Swedish Champion Sven Davidson caught Ken Rosewall on an erratic day and forced him to go five sets to win. Steady Vic Seixas repeated his Wimbledon finals victory over Denmark's Kurt Nielsen only after wavering before...
In the 30-odd nations he had visited, Stevenson had conducted himself with a nonpartisan sense of responsibility, wisdom and tact. What had he been called on to explain most often? "McCarthyism," said Stevenson with no pause at all. He was cautiously optimistic about the state of the world. "We...
Word to the Wise. One day during spring vacation, Dean Taeusch began boasting about his find to a friend in Pittsburgh. To his surprise, the friend had already heard about Robert Peters. Back in 1948, Peters had been employed as a publicity secretary in the office of Bishop Austin Pardue...