Word: haired
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...trip down from the capital of Lhasa. He stopped off at Kalimpong, a small outpost in the hills of northeast India, to clear up the diplomatic preliminaries with Britain. In anticipation of the barbaric fashions of the Court of St. James's, Yuthok cut off his waist-length hair, the mark of a Tibetan layman* of distincton...
That was not as simple as it sounded: it was impossible for Yuthok to return to Lhasa with his London-length hair. But the envoy was not worried. "A Tibetan order doesn't have the same sense of immediacy as a Western order," he explained. It would take "several months" to prepare for the journey home, several more to wait for the Himalayan spring thaws. By that time Yuthok's hair would again be respectably long-and perhaps Tibet might still be waiting for the Communist blow to fall...
...largely responsible for the New Statesman's success as well as for its political fuzziness is Editor Basil Kingsley Martin, who writes most of the lead editorials and a gossipy column about cabbages & kings signed "Critic." With his querulous aquiline profile and his tonsure-like ring of hair, 53-year-old Kingsley Martin well fits his role as omniscient dissenter and belligerent pacifist. His sense of martyrdom is irritating and sincere, once prompted the remark: "If you see someone who looks as if he is on his way to Clarkson's [a theatrical wigmaker] to hire a crown...
...tragedy and tasteless gothic excesses are all brought together. About half a dozen stories are as good bits of fiction as have ever been written in the U.S.: Barn Burning, a poignant sketch of a boy's anguished love for his arsonist-father; A Rose for Emily, that hair-raising classic of a lady's decline to necrophilia; Wash, a magnificent portrait of a poor white who, after years of loyalty, rebels against his landlord; Dry September, a lynching story to end all lynching stories; A Courtship, a richly comic tall tale about the love rivalry...
...Bailey and Its Trials, by Bernard O'Donnell. A hair-raising history of London's famous, once infamous, old court of law (TIME, Aug.7...