Word: closets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...treasury of priceless furniture, rare tapestries and a collection of 60,000 documents and letters from kings, ministers and literary figures. Chopin's piano-a gift from George Sand-graced the gilded music room; the original manuscripts of two unpublished Chopin waltzes were discovered in a linen closet...
...definition, a bore is someone whose presence or persistence creates in others a galloping case of ennui, an urge to hide in the nearest closet, a yearning to down another martini. The ranks of the world's bores are not limited by hierarchy or elitism: they include both the heroes of the minute, beaming amiably across the tube, as well as the inglorious Miltons who prattle on about stamp collecting. Institutions can be boring, like the Organization of American States, and so can events. Is it possible for even the most politicized Italian to care any more about those...
...flag stood for something decent and humanitarian. But how do you tell children about a national sickness, or about the way that symbols of one ideal can be subverted to become symbols of something entirely different?" A Denver housewife, Mrs. Kitty Boyd, explains: "We have a flag in the closet, but I won't fly it right now, because right away I think: 'Republican, Nixon, war.' But please understand that if I dropped it or anything, I'd burn it as you're supposed to." Adds her husband Bill: "We've made the flag a sacred, spiritual kind of thing...
...human experience, as is true of Philip Roth, 37. There is no Faulkner, no Hemingway, no Fitzgerald, no O'Neill in our lost generation. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test may well be our Great Gatsby, and Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feeling So Sad our Desire Under the Elms...
...both finance and law. He grew interested in economics, he says, "by brooding about the absurdity of the Depression." While stationed in the Canal Zone as a Navy intelligence officer during World War II, he wrote a 600-page manuscript pro pounding his views. It lay in a closet for 15 years, until Philosopher Mortimer Adler, intrigued by a conversation with Kelso, asked to read it. Adler was so fascinated that he collaborated with Kelso on The Capitalist Manifesto, published in 1958; it has since sold 50,000 copies. To further his reform cause, Kelso later started in Washington...