Word: eye
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...FLEDGING adolescent a few years back I attempted to allay my middle-class guilt by adopting a philosophy of romantic asceticism. By keeping a frugal eye on my role as an American consumer, I was able to escape the mental anguish of coming from a financially comfortable family. At the same time I could strike a self-satisfying pose of identification with the underprivileged of the world. Only three things, I reasoned, justified any type of expenditure--books, records, and travel. These principles allowed me to obtain material happiness (books, records, and travel being all I really desired) while simultaneously...
Thomas G. ("Tommy the Cork") Corcoran was a 32-year-old near genius who helped Franklin Roosevelt redesign the Federal Government and change the American way of life. He is still around Washington, a peppery 73, keeping an eye on things. He believes that few creative changes have been made in our domestic affairs since 1938, the year Roosevelt began to turn to confront Adolf Hitler. It is Corcoran's further observation, delivered with charming acerbity, that we now need many fundamental readjustments in our national life-style of the magnitude of those F.D.R. instituted, and that if Gerald...
...something; it goes through my eye, brain, heart, guts; I choose the subject...
What could be more personal than that?" As the work on the walls attests, under the stress of the moment style becomes a reflex of the eye, but no less individual for that...
...stop at the Spanish border for a change from standard-to broad-gauge (more than half a foot wider) undercar riage - still hauls magnificent Pullmans with inlaid-wood furniture and three-star menus. There are other royal rides for those who like to look an English cowslip in the eye or find out for them selves that Mussolini did indeed make Italy's trains run on time. "For God's sake," adjures Frimbo, "get on a train...