Word: fleetingness
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And so travel becomes the American's defining experience and mobility his distinctive characteristic, and the nation's endless system of roads becomes the intricate network through which some elusive goal, some beckoning fortune is pursued. The highway is a slender thread between a worn past and an alluring future...
It was a fleeting glimpse, but one that was an important part of my overall vision of Harvard for many years. The stadium always made my mouth hang open a little. It seemed so invincible, like no structure I'd ever seen before. Sure D.C. Stadium in Washington was bigger...
The FBI announced recently that it was releasing its files on the Hiss case for scholarly use, so the pursuers of that fleeting mystery will soon have a new store of ammunition. Hopefully they will make better use of it than Texan professor Anthony Kubek made of a batch of...
Despite such lapses into inaction, Fest concludes that Hitler was a man of incredibly strong will. "He made history with a highhandedness that even in his own days seemed anachronistic," writes Fest. "It is unimaginable that history will ever again be made in quite the same fashion-a succession of...
THE RAGMAN'S DAUGHTER is one of those English proletarian soap operas, done up this time with a patina of gloss. The script was written by Alan Sillitoe (Saturday Night and Sunday Morning) in what could only have been a fit of self-loathing. An unhappy employee in a...