Word: breath
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Paying homage to Tastemaker Barr, Esquire gushed that he "commands what could be called a beautiful speaking voice. He constructs sentences of an almost eighteenth-century complexity without pausing to take breath...
...first year of the decade of the '60s, the U.S. economy has paused for breath, seems to be going nowhere in particular. Some economists are once again talking about a mature economy, worry that there are no new breakthroughs in sight to give the nation a great forward push such as the auto and electronics did. But the past shows that such worries about the future are groundless. The pace of research is such that man's next great discovery may come next month, next week-or tomorrow...
...well as in the pulpit. In The Holy Spirit and Modern Thought (Harper; $4.50), Anglican Canon Lindsay Dewar, a Fellow of King's College, London, concisely surveys the history of thought about the Holy Ghost from the Old Testament concept of ruach, the "breath" or spirit of God, to his own arresting hypothesis that the Holy Spirit works through the unconscious with extrasensory perception...
...backbones in whispers. But love, naturally, has wax in its ears. Novelist Ham knows the language lovers speak, a pottage of mush and banalities, and he is not above using it. He justifies the "I love yous" by capturing the feeling of the roller-coaster slide into passion, that breath-catching dive in which a man and a woman cannot help themselves and do not want to. Indeed. Wink and Gin are so romantically in love that they do not sleep together, a refreshingly archaic innovation for the modern novel...
...Berman's descent into melancholia. His eye and ear, as he tells of Berman's deterioration, are so good that time after time readers may experience the discomforting shock of self surprised. At first the plumber's grief seems simple-inward weeping set off by a breath of perfume from a bathroom cabinet, or the sudden spaciousness of his bed. Then, wallowing in his sadness, Berman turns on everyone who offers comfort. Even his married daughter, who tries to mother him, is stung by his quick, aimless angers, his sullen preference for the inanities of television instead...