Word: callings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...smile "like a rosebud that had just been smashed by a hammer." The hero's meditations on money are childlike enough to produce odd insights. On his first morning of freedom, Starbuck leaves his seedy hotel to buy a newspaper. He then has an urge to call up the Secretary of the Treasury and tell him, "I just tried out two of your dimes on Times Square, and they worked like a dream. It looks like another great day for the coinage!" He hears a radio news broadcast and has another offbeat response: "The newscaster spoke with a barking...
...rumpled, skinny fugitive from L.L. Bean whose spoken English is hampered by a bad stutter. He is as puzzling and exotic to his hosts as they are to him, one of a long line of white hunters and note takers whom the wags of Juba on the White Nile call pink spiders. Only this one writes a blue streak...
...American self-congratulation. Americans contemplate some of the more disgusting uses to which freedom of expression has been put; they confront a physical violence and spiritual heedlessness that makes them wonder if the entire society is on a steep and terminal incline downward. They see around them what they call decadence. But is the U.S. decadent? Does the rich, evil word, with its little horripilations of pleasure, and its gonging of the last dance, really have any relevant meaning...
Freshmen generally will not contact their upperclass guides, he said. The guide has to make the first call...
Alda's irrepressible personality overwhelms the role. Despite his intention to save his family and marriage, he has jumped on a treadmill of political power and, unlike George Jetson, he can't even call for Jane. Politics subsumes the rest of his life; even with women, only one who can be a political part in his life attracts...