Word: constant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...energy, leaping onto tables, sprawling on the floor. He explains the man's anger with a series of visual and auditory irritations--the impassivity of Alison (Karen Grassle) at the ironing board, the obnoxious clang of evening bells, the black and white tedium of a litter of Sunday newspapers, constant courteous offers...
...would be unfair to suggest that the atmosphere in Israel is at all oppressive. Ultimately, no Israeli doubts that he must maintain a certain posture when confronting the constant threat from outside. The Israeli woman was probably not expressing dissatisfaction so much as fatigue...
...soldier should have posed some questions which simply did not occur to him. Must every Israeli feel his situation so strongly? Must this tension between fear and security, despair and hope, this constant viewing of life in terms of black and white, be so pervasive...
Privy to all of Humphrey's top-level sessions and ultimate decisions, Berman, besides giving back rubs and advice, is keeping what he calls a "constant diary" of the campaign. Taking notes or, on occasion, using a tape recorder, he keeps an account of each meeting, then, as soon as he can, writes out what went on. With six weeks yet to go, his chronology already runs to 2,000 pages. If Humphrey should defy the odds and win the election, Berman would undoubtedly become Humphrey's Boswell, a physician-biographer with unparalleled access to the heart, mind...
...ride herd on Herbert Swope," the paper's imperious editor, and to take over the editorial page when Walter Lippmann was away. It was, he says, an impossible job, but he cherishes his years at The World more than any others in his long career. He found constant stimulation in working with such World staffers as Heywood Broun, Maxwell Anderson and Franklin P. Adams. "Never," he writes, "was a more fascinating and gifted company assembled" by any newspaper anywhere. Nor, perhaps, was a more inveterately awful group of punsters ever assembled. During a discussion of German poets, for example...