Word: authority
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...then there is the doctor again. Williams specifies that this character should be a handsome blond. At first, such instructions appear trivial, considering that they do come from an author who describes even the design of the plates in The Glass Menagerie. But later, when Sebastian's sexual proclivities are questioned and when Mrs. Venable tells the doctor that her son would have liked him, these stage notes become quite important. Catherine even comments, "Cousin Sebastian was famished for blonds," calling herself and Mrs. Venable his "procuresses...
According to Alan Nogee, the report's author, it would cost $350,000 a day to keep Pilgrim closed and get power elsewhere, but it costs $900,000 each day to run the plant even while it is closed...
...like walking into a mess in the street. You step in it; you try to wipe it from your foot." Ironically, some of the best material in the book comes from Rosenthal, who at first refused to talk to Goulden but ultimately spent 20 hours with the author. "If you call Abe Rosenthal anything," he told a mystified Goulden as their first meeting drew to a close, "call me anti-authoritarian...
Insisting that liberals are destroying the foundations of Western thought and culture, the contentious author of The Closing of the American Mind denounces his book' s opponents...
...author finds the East bloc boring ("Imagine a world where everything is designed by the post office") and the night life especially disappointing. One club features a stripper doing the "Dance of a Couple of Veils." In the even less developed parts of the world, O'Rourke predicts a "festival of Malthusianism." On the up side, he gives two cheers for Western civilization, "the first in history to show even the slightest concern for average, undistinguished, none-too-commendable people like us." It may not be what the Founding Fathers had in mind, but neither did they envision that their...