Word: guess
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When Jonathon Koomy '84 decided to join the Air Force ROTC, many of his friends were surprised. "They knew that I came from a liberal family," he says, "and that I wasn't too great at taking orders." They might also have guessed what Koomy himself did not, that he would soon have questions about the morality of involvement in the program, and that by the end of freshman year he would have dropped out altogether. "I guess I wanted to see what it was about," he says. "I saw, and I made up my mind. I just didn...
...care for her baby. "I'm going to dress it up real warm in little clothes, stuff like that. You know, be a mother." Says Jeanette Alejandro of Brooklyn, who dropped out of school after the eighth grade to have a baby out of wedlock: "I guess everybody wants a baby. Probably to fill in their life. They feel so bored. They got nothing to do with this life...
...watches Cissy die by agonizing degrees, attempts suicide, and each time revives to go a few more rounds with a new book. In between he analyzes, complains and rejoices on stationery. "I don't know why the hell I write so many let ters," he reflects. "I guess my mind is just too active for its own good...
...writes smells like a billy goat." On Somerset Maugham: His gift "belongs to the great judge or the great diplomat ... He would have made a great Roman." On John P. Marquand: "Beautiful detailed observation and the total effect of a steel engraving with no col or at all. I guess God made Boston on a wet Sunday." On Hemingway: "I suppose the weakness of writers like Hemingway is that their sort of stuff demands an immense vitality; and a man outgrows his vitality without unfortunately outgrowing his furious concern with it." On Ross Macdonald: "Here is a man who wants...
...telephoned his congratulations to Ronald Reagan. By the next afternoon Carter was telling reporters he was confident "history" would rate his presidency more highly than the election returns might momentarily suggest. This is a theme Carter has pursued with visitors in Plains this year, and it is a fair guess it animates the memoirs he is writing. No President defeated for reelection, so far as is known, has ever felt differently. Even before he lost in 1912, William Howard Taft put it well: "By and by the people will see who is right and who is wrong...