Word: silvering
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Still boyish-looking at 43, Jack Kennedy has the gemlike qualities?highly polished, but hard and rather cold?sometimes found in men of silver-spoon birth, Ivy League education and high ambition. Once he decided to be a politician, he set for himself the highest possible political goal, the presidency, and he marched toward it with machinelike efficiency. For him, the House and Senate were not so much arenas of action as steppingstones to his goal. In the Senate he was conspicuous not for achievements of legislation or leadership but for youth, good looks, wealth, and the aura he exuded...
...drawing of him for its poster) and second of politics. But these plays are less about drinking sack and more about ruling England (and Falstaff wants nothing to do with that, save as it gives him a chance to abuse the King's press and line his pockets with silver and his belly with food and wine...
...prosperous Sydney poultry farmer, Mackenzie earns a good living by chicken sexing, the occult craft of sorting out fluffy, day-old chicks by sex. A crack schoolboy rower, Mackenzie took up the individual sculls four months before the 1956 Olympics, learned fast enough to win a silver medal...
...finest, and Laurence Olivier, whose body English makes him Shakespeare's Angry Young Man, forever Hotspur, whether he is a sinuously satanic Richard III, a black-as-thunder Macbeth, or a plangent patriot King, Henry V. Not far behind these triumphs are Maurice Evans' sterling-silver-tongued Richard II, Ralph Richardson's roguishly intelligent Falstaff and Michael Redgrave's mettlesome, love-ravished Antony. They are the leaders of today's functional Shakespeare, in which action flows naturally along the firm riverbed of the verse-making clearer than ever that, while the play...
Discovery in Heidelberg. After working his way through the University of Pennsylvania Medical School, Barnes went to Heidelberg, earning his keep as a singer of Negro spirituals in a Bierstube. He and a brilliant young German student, Hermann Hille. worked out the formula for Argyrol, a mild silver protein solution for which doctors had many uses-to treat gonorrhea, including gonorrheal blindness, relieve severe nasal congestion. Argyrol, manufactured in a former flophouse in Philadelphia, was an instant and worldwide success, and Barnes was a million aire before he was 35. In 1928, with superb timing, Barnes sold out Argyrol...