Word: lifelong
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Herschel Bernardi is another talent entombed in a seemingly moribund CBS property. Arnie, as his series is titled, has a possibly workable premise: a lifelong blue-collar worker is suddenly hoisted from the loading dock to an executive desk. But what laughs there were in the first episode belonged to the firm's fatuous, polo-playing president (Roger Bowen), whose main professional interest seems to be avoiding handclasps lest he endanger his mallet hand. Arnie is around obviously to provide hardhat wisdom and wit, but the premiere script suggests that Eric Hoffer...
...writes joyfully for a can-be Mandy, but obviously adores Mandy as is. Like a gardener trying to force growth from a rare hothouse flower, he regales his daughter with mythology, history, literature, geographical wonders and oddities of nature, "a Nature I never really noticed until it bungled." A lifelong slave of words and reasons, he envies the intensity with which Mandy perceives the world nonverbally through her four acute senses. Fascinated by attentiveness for its own sake, he frees himself for a time by tasting and testing along with her. Ink tastes like "charred toenail," bark is like vulcanized...
...Hawthorne's allegorical short story, Young Goodman Brown, the ingenuous Puritan wanders into the forest one dark night and catches all his friends, neighbors and saintly village elders in mortal sin-in this case devil worship. It might have been just a dream, but it made a lifelong cynic of young Brown. Much the same thing happened not long ago to a young reporter named Charley Thompson, who wandered into Jacksonville. Fla. The sin was not devil worship but pollution, a suitable modern equivalent. And it was no dream...
...strength. The elderly are notoriously vulnerable to hip fractures from even a light fall. In some cases, ribs or the long bones of the arms or legs fracture spontaneously, without a fall or noticeable trauma. The condition can also be congenital, and in such rare cases it becomes a lifelong affliction...
...Mozart. Szell's demand for perfection from himself and his musicians grew from a lifelong, almost superhuman, discipline. A child prodigy, he could sing some 40 folk songs in four languages at the age of two. He could also scribble musical notations, he liked to recall, "that made no sense at all. That's the way the modern composers do it today." At four, he was slapping his mother's hand when she hit a wrong note on the piano...