Word: introvert
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...average submarine man is an introvert. Long weeks under the sea, as well as the secrecy of his work, have made him the least talkative of all military men. He may go months without receiving news, or giving any. He cannot make any but the tersest official reports until he returns for his three weeks ashore between missions. And so his philosophy necessarily is: "It will keep." The pale-faced submarine man lives a crowded, dehydrated existence which may cause him to lose as much as 20 Ib. during his three months or so at sea. But he eats well...
...quite true that all of Tschaikowsky's music contains a greater or lesser degree of emotion, which Tschaikowsky, an introvert, could not expend in the usual channels and, therefore, allowed to appear in his music. When this emotion is allowed to overbalance the seance of musical architecture which Tschaikowsky admittedly possessed, as in Marche Slave, the 1812 Overture, and the earlier symphonies, the result is something which approximates trash yet, nevertheless, contains definite musical interest. However, it must be admitted that when, as in the last three symphonies and the two popular concertos, Tschaikowsky succeeds in welding this emotion into...
...last time the world went mad the turning point in the Near East was the revolt of the Arabs. Thomas Edward Lawrence, a magnificent introvert from Wales, organized the Arabs for the revolt which broke Turkey's power and set up Great Britain's and France's control over what are now Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Trans-Jordan, Oman, Aden and the Hadramaut. That Britain planned a similar campaign appeared in July when she made Emperor Haile Selassie, the ex-Lion of Judah, her formal ally in order to have his aid in raising revolt...
...anti-fascist novels, written at 3,000 miles removed from fascist reality, are too often the sort which make a Führer out of every bully. James T. Farrell's Jew-hating young Brooklyn Irishman, a bellicose introvert who sells Father Moylan's Christian Justice, is a convincing individual in Tommy Gallagher's Crusade (Vanguard, $1), but the tract-like limitations of the story are implicit in the original title: Tommy Gallagher-American Storm Trooper. Mari Sandoz's third book, Capital City (Little, Brown, $2.50), lacks even a credible character. A panoramic, pamphlet-pat story...
Columnist's Day. The job of conducting a column requires a peculiar admixture of journalistic talents. A columnist must be receptive and selective, absorptive and digestive, and have the trick of verbal catharsis. The successful columnist must be both an introvert and an extravert, a reporter and an exhibitionist...