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...loneliest man in Time's man-of-the-week club of 1962 must be George F. Kennan, U.S. Ambassador to Yugoslavia. Kennan is featured in this week's issue together with Edwin O. Reischauer and John Kenneth Galbraith, Harvard professors who are currently on leave as ambassadors, and are the third and fourth Harvard men to appear on the magazine's cover in two weeks...
...pursue his favorite hobbies: speeding in his Bugatti sports car and gorging himself on food. His wife left him, and when he made headlines in 1954 after being hit by a car, many art lovers thought he was already dead. Two months later he was-one of the loneliest figures in the entire turbulent history of modern...
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...exceptional cover story on J. D. Salinger depicting him as the solitary worker at the loneliest of the creative arts brought home the fact that those of us who thought ourselves solitary admirers of Salinger are, on the contrary, members of a vast crowd. Writing is a quiet art-its audience does not queue up at a Carnegie Hall or a Guggenheim Museum. But the Salinger who interprets the singular and lonely person trying to stay intact amidst the reality of thousands must feel as out of place facing the thousands...
Discretion on and off the field is just one major requirement for the big-league baseball umpire, whose job ranks among the most demanding, the least appreciated and the loneliest in organized sport. Ideally, the umpire should combine the integrity of a Supreme Court justice, the physical agility of an acrobat, the endurance of Job and the imperturbability of Buddha. Before each game, he must perform such lackey's chores as "policing" the diamond and rubbing the gloss off 60 new baseballs with specially aged New Jersey creek mud that costs $12.50 a can. He must know by heart...