Word: harold
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Notably Noncommittal. U.S. allies, most of whom privately think the islands should have been relinquished to Red China long ago, were notably noncommittal. Harold Macmillan, caught in a journalistic trap (see Great Britain), felt obliged to state publicly: "Our American allies have neither sought nor received promises of military support from us in the Formosa area." On the Continent, France's De Gaulle and West Germany's Adenauer both maintained a disapproving silence. In Australia Prime Minister Robert Gordon Menzies, usually a staunch advocate of a united Western front, declared that his government had "no specific policy...
...Harold, you see, writes at night, and, as he finishes each page, rolls it into a little ball and puts it in his coat pocket (he reads that somewhere.) And then he dreams, strange dream of motorcycles and frisbee discs, the mystery of Bermuda shorts and one summer of happiness. Harold is, as well as an artist, a dreamer...
...writes Harold on a sheet of yellow paper, belongs to the night and together they conspire against Boston. They live illicitly, caress each other with streetlamps and shadows and juke box symphonies, the soft sob of loss, the subway shudder and the sigh. Night warms is black limbs by the gutter fires and furnace spit. We should bottle the night, prone and passive, siphon it into leather canteen flasks, take swigs of it while sunning ourselves by the river, savour it after a French loave-lunch, rub it on our arm in lieu of excrement...
...only tell you this: if you spot Harold on the street (you can tell him by the flies) pause to flip him a dime. You're buying posterity's culture cut-rate, not to mention tomorrow morning's toast
...transformation, of course, is not instantaneous; even after the last exam postcard is sent, the rituals of Commencement and Reunion remain. President Pusey cautioned the outgoing seniors on the growth of secularism, and Ivy Orator Harold Fitzgibbons suggested that the Program could be boosted by converting Soldiers Field into a dog track. Nothing came of the second suggestion...