Word: fretfully
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Among victorious swimming coaches there are two kinds of men, those who fret and never sleep, and those who work hard, but lead the good life and sleep well. Varsity mentor Bill Brooks, of the latter category, might just as well stay in bed today, because his boys are going to murder Brown...
...Buddha, as they always are in British light fiction. No one knows why, just as no one knows why characters in U.S. ladies' fiction are all named Brett and Brick and Brack and Blade.) The tizzies in which the islanders become involved may be trivial-can anyone really fret about the problems of a cuckolded duke if he is called Droopy?-but they are enjoyed by all hands, including the author...
...fact was that the 1960 conference of Berlin could fret over Western man's inner freedom only because, as George Kennan pointed out, "the external dangers" to freedom have receded. "So far as ideology is concerned," said Kennan in a somberly eloquent survey, it is the Communists "who are on the defensive, faced with the insistence of their own youth on the right to knowledge and inquiry...
With everyone getting into the swim, Cousteau and his fellow experts fret about safety. They deplore any attempt to set records, either with or without an Aqua-Lung.* Snaps Cousteau: "It does not depend on your ability as a diver. You are just finding out what your physique can stand that day." Last year the Portuguese spearfishing champion, a top-flight French diver and two strong Americans drowned because apparently they blacked out while swimming with held breath, and gulped water. In place of spearfishing competition, Cousteau would like to see surface races between swimmers wearing masks and foot fins...
...Palm Beach Hostess Gloria Guinness, Cinemactresses Audrey Hepburn and Merle Oberon. Four other ladies rustled their way into permanent niches in the stratospheric Fashion Hall of Fame in recognition of their "faultless taste in dress without ostentation or extravagance." The quartet with tenure, who will no longer have to fret about crashing the list: Rome's Countess Consuelo Crespi, Detroit's Mrs. Henry Ford II, Manhattan-Palm Beach Socialite Mrs. Winston Guest, Manhattan's Mrs. William Randolph Hearst...