Word: cynicism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...oops! That $2.6 billion sent to Yugoslavia seems to have sunk without a trace. In Jordan a dike that cost the U.S. close to $1,000,000 meanders across the flinty desert for dozens of miles, waiting to trap rain that never falls. And in Indonesia, as one cynic puts it, the net effect of much teaching aid is to assure that "the anti-American signs in Djakarta are written in good English...
While elaborate plans are drawn to transform the waterfront into a residential paradise and Scollay Square into a glistening Government Center (as one cynic remarked, replacing one kind of vice with another), nowhere do they outline a meaningful war on poverty...
...words about what it must be like to be a child with a fifty-nine-year-old's perspective. It is an incredibly beautiful production, as great an autobiography as any written in this century. Yet there is something sad about the creativity. It is sad because this mild cynic wished above all to grip naked reality. He ends up with new fantasies between his hands, fantasies that rushed in to take the place of vulgar illusions the existentialists hoped to strip away...
...have to say that the boy is accurate in the 10-to 15-yd. range," he said. "But I can't tell you whether he can throw long." Then, too, Rhome is only 6 ft. tall: "He might be too short for the pros." Only a cynic would point out that if Jerry Rhome is too short, so are such pros as Washington's Sonny Jurgenson, St. Louis' Charley Johnson New York's Y. A. Tittle, Minnesota's' Fran Tarkenton, and San Francisco's George Mira...
Runyon lived by a cynic's creed: "If every person in the world was taught from birth to trust no one, it would eventually be a universal state of mind." He followed a cynic's success formula: "Get the money." His cold blue eyes discouraged friendship. From his altitude in journalism he could reach a hand down to promising young comers -Bob Considine, Paul Gallico -only to turn on them if they seemed to threaten his position. One he always cut was Ring Lardner, whom Runyon suspected -rightly -was a writer of far greater in sight, substance...