Word: quaintly
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...made things especially tough for doctors. At last week's annual Clinical Congress of the American College of Surgeons in San Francisco, the nation's leading medical researchers agreed that the chief obstacle to effective surgery on cranial arteries is one of man's quaint anatomical features-the Circle of Willis (see diagram...
...thunder of those seaborne demolition charges rings distant in the ear; the armada that sailed from Falmouth is already as quaint and archaic as the fleet that sailed with Drake. For in a world of ballistic missiles, nuclear warheads and intricate, intercontinental guidance systems that are not bothered by such hazards as the River Loire mud flats, the glory of the Greatest Raid seems strangely out of date. Its moving and carefully compiled record belongs on history's bookshelves, a reminder of a non-atomic world when everyone was sure that wars could still...
...Little War of Private Post, by Charles Johnson Post. The Spanish-American War now seems quaint as a mustache cup, but the author, who made the charge up San Juan Hill, writes movingly about both heroism and blundering...
Greenwillow (music and lyrics by Frank Loesser; book by Lesser Samuels and Mr. Loesser; based on B. J. Chute's novel) takes the composer of Guys and Dolls for a long ride-from a tough Manhattan of floating crap games to a quaint folk region of scampering rustics. An off-in-the-distance village, Greenwillow is also an out-of-the-past one and might conceivably be Rip Van Winkle country; its doings, at least, could put people to sleep for 20 years. It offers a woodsy, folksy, pixie world where people hear a devil's call...
...hindsight, it was a quaint, old-fashioned war, and Author Post puts it distinctively and persuasively into print in this graceful memoir. Post, who died in 1956 at the age of 83, was a writer-illustrator (Harper's, Cosmopolitan) with a lifelong appetite for adventure. He ran mule trains over the Andes, witnessed insurrections in Cuba and Venezuela, and honeymooned in the Mexican jungles. But nostalgia's finest hour remained for him the charge up San Juan Hill...