Word: omar
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Omar Khayyam Moore ("My parents just admired Omar Khayyam") is a chain-smoking Yale sociologist with a theory even more striking than his name. Says he: "It is possible for children aged two to five to type, read, write and take dictation.'' And for the past two years Moore has been proving his point in an experiment at his tiny Yale lab. By letting two-year-olds "play" with an electric type writer, Moore gets them reading at second-grade level within six months. His explanation: "The intellectual capabilities and interests of young children have been seriously underestimated...
Some of Novelist Gold's lines are finely foolish-Dan, roaring Omar on the Lake Erie beach, is "a Demosthenes with pebbles under the tongues of his shoes." One or two images are apt to stir the soul-Dan and a buddy, sneaking out of a second-story window, "vlooped down the drainpipe like two messages in a department-store tube." Dan lusts after Rosalie Fallen, rubs faces with Pattie Donahue, very nearly vloops with Eva Masters, does so gladly (and improbably) with a commercial lady named Black Lil. And marries, in the happy epilogue, beautiful Lucille Lake, girl...
...Berman (IQ 149 by Stanford-Binet, one disappointing point short of genius) and his friend Juicer Montague (IQ a dandy 162) are 15-year-old men who live in Lakewood, Ohio in the late '30s, admire Omar Khayyam, Thomas Wolfe and Ben Hecht, the poet, and discuss serious matters. This is how Dan recalls one conversation: "Hee hee hee, snickeree. 'Who is our real mother?' Hee. 'Maybe your father was my father, Juicer. It's possible.' Snickeree. At last these questions, and others as pure, slipped away from us, and now the extremest demands...
Despite offers of up to $1,000,000, General George C. Marshall steadfastly refused to publish his memoirs during his lifetime. But he did leave 500,000 personal papers and more than 50 hours of recorded interviews to a research founda tion headed by General of the Army Omar N. Bradley. Last week Bradley announced that the first of three volumes of an authorized biography of Marshall, written by ex-Army Historian Forrest C. Pogue, will be published in 1963. Royalties will help establish a Marshall Library at his alma mater, the Virginia Military Institute at Lexington...
...Ghanaian army. Early last week the Belgians were taking advantage of the confusion to parachute troops into smaller cities throughout the country, planning attacks on Matadi, Thysville, Stanleyville -Premier Lumumba's home town. Alexander cooled off the Belgians, rushed tough Ethiopian troops to Stanleyville and sent Colonel Ben Omar and his Moroccans down to Thysville and Matadi...