Word: bored
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stamp of personality that enlivened four generations of American journalism. In Chicago it was the incomparable Colonel Robert Rutherford McCormick, in Washington the acid Eleanor ("Cissy") Patterson, in New York the swashbuckling Captain Joseph Medill Patterson. More recently, a raven-haired bundle of energy named Alicia Patterson Guggenheim bore the family banner with her Long Island tabloid, Newsday. Last week at the age of 56, Alicia Patterson died, and for the first time in 143 years no member of the dynasty ran a newspaper...
...letters of acceptance mailed in the spring of 1959 bore the post-mark "Our task is still to build." Originally the motto of the Program for Harvard College, it has since come to reflect the atmosphere of growth to which the Class of '63 has been exposed...
...Bannon is a bounder, he is never a bore. With his good looks, appetite for hell-raising and rootless amorality, he follows his code of don't-give-a-damn with snakelike charm on the cattle ranch where he lives with his decent old father (Melvyn Douglas) and his idolizing 17-year-old nephew (Brandon de Wilde). Hud sleeps with married women, blitzes the countryside in a pink Cadillac convertible, and devils the ranch's devoted and attractive housekeeper (Patricia Neal) with whispered propositions...
...worse than the President's press conference, earlier in the week. There, as happens with increasing frequency, Kennedy was asked a lot of silly questions-and did not improve much on them in his answers. Inevitably Sarah McClendon, who is becoming television's most monumental bore, got her chance, rang in with a rambling query about an obscure Texas lead smelter that few people a quarter-mile outside of El Paso had ever heard...
...theaters-the architectural and liturgical splendors of St. Peter's-for a novelistic drama of great power and immediate concern. West's tale of the Russian who becomes Pope surmounts two obvious hazards when the papacy is a subject for fiction-that of scandalizing Catholics or boring those outside the Catholic faith. Pope Kiril is no bore and is perhaps the first fictional pontiff to pass the severe test the subject imposes on the fallibility of novelists.*West's novel can be read as exciting fiction by a notable craftsman (The Devil's Advocate...