Word: account
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...MAKING OF THE PRESIDENT, 1964, by Theodore H. White. The author shows as much skill as he did in his best-selling account of the 1960 campaign. But he is hard put to overcome the fact that he is writing about a dull and one-sided election...
...will carry us through the trivial details of everyman's day into that playpen of pain and love, the human heart, and that it will do this miraculously, suddenly droppings us at the doorstep of inner truth just when we thought that the real problem was Mama's bank account and not Mama's need for love. And there was a time (Come Back Little Sheba, Picnic, The Dark at the Top of the Stairs) when Bill Inge may have had the little lamp of truth and sincerity flickering in his now-prosperous soul. But the main light that shines...
...MAKING OF THE PRESIDENT, 1964, by Theodore H. White. The author shows as much skill as he did in his bestselling account of the 1960 campaign. But he is hard put to overcome the fact that he is writing about a dull, one-sided election...
...read with interest in your issue of July 2 your account of the television debate on Viet Nam in which I participated. I must take exception to your statement that I "smiled weakly." I never do that. Either 1 smile...
...courtly love and the service of the lady fair. In Dante's life the lady fair was Beatrice. A 14th century biographer reports, not altogether reliably, that she was a daughter of Folco Portinari, a Florentine nobleman, and that she looked like "a little angel." Dante, the account continues, met Beatrice when he was nine and she was eight, and he swore to love her forever. On the evidence of his poetry, he adored her from a distance. But the affair was nevertheless passionate and profound. When Beatrice died at 24, Dante was shaken to the bottom...