Word: guardedness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The setting is an underground shelter fitted with intercoms and tape recorders and guarded by an electrified fence that dims the light whenever a stray animal is electrocuted. A family is hiding here from an unspecified "it" that is "moving west." Mother Eileen Heckart mangles French and Italian phrases and...
In top-secret meetings behind the closely guarded doors of the War Room at Pacific Command Headquarters in Honolulu, the tough approach of the night hawks was implemented and re-emphasized: the U.S. not only will continue its military effort in Viet Nam, but has every intention of stepping it...
Adlai E. Stevenson, United States ambassador to the United Nations, will speak at Harvard commencement June 17, and will receive an honorary degree, reliable sources said yesterday. Information about graduation speakers and honorary degrees is closely guarded by the University until noon of commencement day.
Escape? For four months, the three men, tightly bound, were paraded through villages and hamlets as living displays of "captured imperialist aggressors." On Dec. 26, after signing statements supporting the Viet Cong, Grainger's two companions were released. They reported that the American was still in captivity, chained and...
Yet Rojack (like Mailer?) knows so many worlds that he is never an insider. Rojack is in limbo, always a familiar face, always tuned in on the less guarded secrets, but always a floater on the periphery, always a nose pressed against the glass. This is Rojack (and Mailer his...