Word: dryness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...turn it off adequately. Every morning when Bill [William A Jackson, curator or the Houghton from 1942 until his death in 1964] and I arrived at the so-called rare book room of Widener Library the temperature would be a minimum of 85 causing a dreadful degree of dryness for the books...
...years, however, politics paled. "At first it's fun, because you get the illusion of achieving. But I've spent my life with political people and they never accomplish anything. We ex-Communists have a flavor that is instantaneously recognizable to each other -a sort of dryness. It is very hard to get on with the young socialists today. They seem so romantic-as if nothing had ever happened...
...turn it off adequately. Every morning when Bill [William A. Jackson, curator of the Houghton from 1942 until his death in 1964] and I arrived at the so-called rare book room of Widner Library, the temperature would be a minimum of 85, causing a dreadful degree of dryness for the books...
...glacial streams at night. It became almost impossible to keep feet dry in the spongy moss. On the fire lines, the thick gritty smoke dried throats out quickly every morning, but the quart of rationed water had to last for ten hours, so most men simply endured the dryness...
Despite its dryness of tone, Baker's book is a massive and humane critical achievement. He firmly makes a necessary point: this sometimes foolish, vain and gallant man might have gone through life merely flailing at his personal terror-shooting it, gaffing it or punching it in the nose. Instead, he also tried to exorcise it with words. That made all the difference...