Word: harold
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tell you about Harold, the red-eyed bowtied young man mentioned earlier. Harold was tossed out of Adams House two weeks before Summer School. He is writing his thesis on Jack Kerouac. He wanders down Massachusetts Avenue in the infant hours with that burdened shuffle of troubled genius. He is typical of the night-crawlers, repressed, rebellious, and vaguely disturbed...
...Harold is a writer. Although rejected by the Advocate (a local magazine devoted to literature), he sold a poem to a Greenwich Village little magazine for a free subscription, and an article (under a psuedonym) on trailor-camping to a Western magazine for $120. That $120 has to sustain him for the summer, at the pace of a dollar...
...Harold sleeps in the Common. He awakes each morning to the sun, a stomach growl, and the stolid stone gaze of Lincoln watching Garden Street--at about seven-thirty. He usually steals a newspaper on the way to the Square (Bernard Goldfine fascinates him), and eats breakfast at the Bick...
Eating is a serious business--a matter of man's ultimate adaptibility, involving both a sinister intuitive sense and a strong constitution. Breakfast is a cup of coffee (with cream for added nourishment) and a ten-cent side order of buttered toast. (Harold watches with a surly vigilance; there's always the chance that the grim, spindly individual who passes for an all-night cafeteria cook might slight students on butter.) Harold is careful not to tear apart and devour the bread; his meal is precise and aristocratic, punctuated with frequent glasses of free water...
...they loved research more for its own sake than for profit. Adams began searching for ways to put their talents to work making money, later cut out such money-losing items as TV sets, decided that Raytheon's future lay in increasing Government work. He brought in Harold Geneen, former vice president of Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp., as executive vice president in 1956, told him: "Make some money...