Word: hearted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After Dallas, she had the soothing hand, the understanding heart. "There was in those days," TIME Correspondent Hugh Sidey remembers, "a sense of urgency about him, almost as if he were sliding off some horrible precipice toward some faraway disaster. There was an irresistible compulsion to do everything and try everything. That is when he began to shoot rapids and climb mountains." This compulsion, an almost existential need to dare the elements, combined with a lifelong love of physical exertion, prompted him to lead the first ascent of the Yukon's 14,000-ft. Mount Kennedy, named...
...bonds with his aides and cohorts. Shy, anxious Bobby Kennedy had something else: his backers were certain that he alone could move to heal the racial, generational, and international crisis hobbling America. As one Boston female lawyer back from the funeral said Sunday. "He had more imagination, guts, and heart than the rest." According to his long-time adviser Adam Yarmolinsky, his constant refrain was "What can I do about...
Marshall W. Nirenberg, a research chemist, is chief of the Laboratory of Biochemical Genetics of the National Heart Institute in Bethesda...
...aspects of war were grim. The ordinary Harvard summer school continued to exist together with the College's summer semester, and 500 females lived in the Yard. So there was ample opportunity for that one last fling. Where to squire your sweet-heart? In August the Keith Memorial played "Pride of the Yankees," the story of big, brave Lou Gehrig, the man death had cloaked with quickened immortality some ten years before. For the more romantically entwined couple, Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire starred in "Holiday Inn" at the Paramount. Dinner could be had for an easy sum at Durgin...
...Another Country, the hero is a black artist, this time a handsome, slightly built 39-year-old actor, Leo Proudhammer. The dramatic high point occurs on the very first page, when Leo suffers a heart attack onstage. From then on, the reader must bear with him through a convalescence plagued by interminable flashbacks. There is a Harlem boyhood that includes an incestuous homosexual interlude with his older brother. This is followed by a pre-hippie East Village adolescence during which Leo begins to forge a lasting black-brother, white-sister relationship with Barbara King, a Kentucky-born actress. And finally...