Word: cynic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Analyzed Spookery. A surprising number of the ghosts vetted by the Gazetteer are anything but evil: there are legions of priests chanting liturgies, for instance, and distraught gentlewomen who specialize in vanishing into walls. Yet there is enough sheer horror to send chills through the stoutest cynic. One example is a thoroughly detailed struggle with a "malevolent thing"-endured in the early '20s by Author Beverley Nichols and his friend Lord St. Audries in a dilapidated house in Torquay, Devon. Underwood also deals at length with the carefully analyzed spookery at Borley Rectory, Essex. Before the house was destroyed...
There is one large lesson not to be drawn from Viet Nam. Some cynic has said that Viet Nam has given war a bad name, and it sometimes seems as though Viet Nam has also given foreign policy a bad name. Thomas Hughes, the new president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, deplores "the flight from foreign policy." Surely it would be the greatest of all tragedies of Viet Nam if it so soured or embittered us that we tried to draw back in on ourselves. The U.S. cannot escape the consequences of American power even if it wanted...
...couldn't have happened to a more vulnerable guy. Hank Glyczwycz is a bitter middle-aged cynic. He was just beginning to loosen up to his students' sweet faith in love and peace highs when Gloria wrecks him with her disclosure. She is the forgotten illegitimate daughter from a distant love affair...
While the rest of us, whether PL or Young Republican or rising young politico or tired, liberal cynic, merely mirrored his games in our own distorting mirrors. We all had run the race, we all laid claim to the prize, while the killing in Indochina, immune to our debate over the meaning of "End the War." went irrevocably...
...Jack Kennedy may have been daring, but foolhardy he was not. He may have been pragmatic, but he was never a cynic. He did not make a totem pole of his mistakes. The trouble with Jack Kennedy's inaugural address is that he had so little time to attempt to put it into practice and that we Americans have so little personal interest in picking up and carrying out his challenge of excellence, humanity and peace...