Word: damned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...these New Yorker conceits are not really writing, anyway. It is hardly difficult to quote silly news articles at length, and get laughs out of them; after 100 pages, though, this gets pretty damn boring. And when Liebling inserts a few words of his own between the great gobs of reprints, his tone is one of utter pomposity, of the man who has been everywhere, read everything, and done all there is to do. His presumed knowledge of every situation that arises is nothing if not infuriating...
...manic alcoholism, his prankishness and exhibitionism, even his short and abortive acting career late in life, were the result of an emotionally starved childhood and adolescence. At a 1922 reunion dinner of his Yale class, Lewis said: "When I was in college, you fellows didn't give a damn about me, and I'm here to say that now I don't give a damn about...
...pitching, not hitting, may be the key. In fact there are more damn good pitchers in this Series than you or I ever saw before. Count'em: Whitey Ford, Luis Arroyo, Ralph Terry, Bill Stafford, Jim Coates, Roland Sheldon, Hal Reniff, Jim O'Toole, Joey Jay, Bob Purkey, Jim Brosnan, Bill Henry, and Ken Johnson...
...time, a checked wool shirt and "Genghis Khan beard." His working habits have not changed: Salinger takes a packed lunch to his cement-block cell, and works from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. He can be reached there by phone?but. says a relative, "the house had damn well better be burning down." When he is not working, Salinger watches TV as avidly as any Fat Lady...
...extension of the student loan program of the National Defense Education Act; extension of federal aid to school districts that have large numbers of children of federal employees, including servicemen. With this bill at the ready, White House Aide Larry O'Brien snapped: "Let's have this damn thing out right here...