Word: interregnum
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Burgess leads the reader skillfully through the cycle. His antihero, a nonentity named Foxe, halfheartedly shovels history at fifth formers in the first phase. During Interphase, he is a political prisoner and then a refugee, frantic to eat and not be eaten (cannibalism is part of the chaotic interregnum). In the third phase, Foxe enlists in an army whose sole function, it turns out, is to relieve the population pressure by annihilating another army-and itself...
Into Alabama's political ring once again went the wool hat of James E. ("Kissin' Jim") Folsom, 53, a favorite to win the Democratic gubernatorial primary-and with it an unprecedented third term in a state where the Governor cannot succeed himself. After idling away his latest interregnum selling insurance in the hinterlands, 6-ft. 8-in. Folsom faced only one real stumbling block: a redneck notion that he is soft on segregation because he once sipped Scotch with Harlem Congressman Adam Clayton Powell in the executive mansion...
Last week the interregnum ended as Shor proudly opened the doors of his new place, which, by happenstance, occupies the site of the old Leon & Eddie's, where Shor had been a $50-a-week bouncer. His new joint, a handsome nine stories high, cost $5,000,000. Inside, the new Shor's reflected the old: a huge circular bar, a wood-paneled main room, dining room upstairs, hatchicks who look like ladykins. Chief added feature: a 400-car garage on the top seven floors, which will enable customers, in the words of a Shor lieutenant, "to scratch...
...principle, then John Fitzgerald Kennedy will take his place in the lofty company to which he honorably aspires." Since then, although still generally enthusiastic about the Kennedy Administration, Shannon has increasingly peppered his prose. Wrote he of Kennedy's early Cabinet choices: "It has been a pretty sad interregnum for liberal admirers of our new, young President-elect. What began as a search for new men is ending as the acceptance of grey men." After Secretary of State Dean Rusk's first press conference, Shannon commented acidly: "Answering approximately 20 questions, he explored the outer reaches of cliche...
Kissinger deposes Bundy, who flees to the Dominican Republic, where he begins secret negotiations with Juan Peron. President Pusey accepts the offer of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington and becomes Bishop Coadjutor. William Yandell Elliott seizes power in the interregnum claiming the support of the Summer School...