Word: damnedness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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As of now, the Nixon proposal stands little chance of success. The Senate and House are strongly against it. In all likelihood, effective reform of the Post Office may not occur until the point -perhaps not too distant-at which mail service becomes so flagrantly bad that public wrath outweighs...
John Cheever's title, in the most obvious way, is intended to suggest that it is possible to die just as dead and be as swiftly damned among movers and cocktail shakers as ever it has been among the cockroach-infested retreats of the materially disadvantaged.
When Hillenbrand left, Correspondent Frank Merrick (Princeton '64) took over the job. A veteran of the demonstrations at Brandeis three months earlier, Merrick expected a quieter morning of argument among the more moderate students. He was considerably surprised. "Those Harvard men were damned angry," he says. "After three hours...
Townrow is not undeserving of his fate. A failed theological student, a failed husband, he wears the dank, damned look of a Graham Greene reject. His main achievement in 35 years has been to embezzle money from a charity fund dedicated to the memory of drowned Boy Scouts. With modest...
According to Richard duPont, a Putnam Avenue resident who addressed the rally at Central Square and in the Yard, "Why should we have to move out of Cambridge to make way for high paid technicians? My house on Putnam Avenue has to come down. I'll be damned if it...