Word: loners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...crunch of politics since then, the President and the Congressman have ceased to be friends, but O'Neill knew him long enough to offer an insight into his personality that he feels may partially explain Watergate. Because he is such a loner, suggests O'Neill, the President does not do enough personal assessing of the men being considered for his staff, taking them on the judgment of others. What is more, says O'Neill, "Nixon is well briefed-but he's briefed the way his people think he wants to be briefed...
...save your sex, then, you have got to leave society--just as Simon, criminal, has staked out the last male frontier, the rough, untamed places where men can be men. Witness his Western hero style, the steady shoulders and gruff speech, the way he follows his fate, the loner doing what must be done. He's like the old maid's dream boyfriend, daredevil to the world, all sweetness to her. No weaknesses, no fetishes, no perversities. You can't get much closer to Doris Dayland. This one's as straight as they come...
...loner. That's why he likes driving the new Harvard shuttle bus-at least along the Business School leg of the trip. (Tuesday night, no more than two or three students boarded the green and white striped minibus to join A1 on the lonely journey across Anderson Bridge to the B-School parking...
...Well, it's a job," said Lee, a 42 year old Framingham resident. "And it's a good job for a loner-that's why I like...
...Kelly's work anticipated by years many of their salient features (the minimal look, the use of chance in design, the shaped canvas, the horizontal-stripe picture), he has never been part of a "movement." At 50, painting and sculpting on his Hudson Valley farm, Kelly remains a loner, both in temperament and in style. His pictorial intellect - graceful, aristocratic, verging on the absolutist but never programmed - is far removed from the pugnacious limit-pushing and problem-solving of most advanced New York art. Of all living American painters, figurative or abstract, Kelly emerges closest to the spirit...