Word: greatly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...This is a great time for feminists. For years, some people have said that the President of the United States ought to be a woman. Now the North Koreans have succeeded in turning him into...
...Your writer etched Ethel Kennedy's many-faceted character with great care, pointing out the trivia, triumphs and tragedies of her rich life. Missing only was a reference to a personal relationship with the late Dr. Martin Luther King. Politically and psychologically, the two families had much in common, with sudden death to both fathers and husbands forming some kind of emotional tie. Thanks again for an excellent study of a complex, beautiful woman told by a writer who shows the rarest of gifts: loving concern for his subject...
...TIME, "On Flying More and Enjoying It Less" [April 18], spotlights increasing, overpowering chaos in air travel. Major problems are created by the need for superairports to serve superjets. Necessarily they must be located at great distances from the megalopolis each serves. And these airports will simply shift confusion from one place to another. Perhaps the answer is containerized people. A gargantuan crane straddles the plane, smoothly lifts the passenger compartment from the plane and deposits it on a monorail flatcar pulled by a power unit. The passengers unbuckle their seat belts and are whisked 150 m.p.h. to the downtown...
...enjoyed reading your article on Erasmus [April 25], but I do not think you went all the way when you endeavored to explain the name of my great compatriot. Erasmus' name in fact was Geert Geertsz (Gerard, son of Gerard) and as the humanists liked to translate their names into Latin (and/or Greek), Erasmus used the fact that "Geert" in his time was a form of a verb which meant "to desire," "to long for" (Latin: desidero). You know, of course, that Melanchthon wrote an epitaph for Erasmus: "Eras mus omnia rodere solitus [You were a mouse that always...
...Yorker study demanded the cruel precision of an Evelyn Waugh, Wolfe stuffed in the vitality of a Rabelais. As they have developed, however, Wolfe's essays have taken on a more structured approach (and he is now working on a reportorial novel), but he will always remain the great journalist of kitsch. He is the chronicler of modern America's myths, and myths have a tendency to go berserk--even as they are being told...