Word: loved
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Philadelphia is quiet once again. The 250 women athletes who invaded the town last weekend, representing all eight Ivy League schools, have left the City of Brotherly Love and returned to books, classrooms, and the remaining games of their regular season schedules. The Palestra has once again returned to the clutches of the Big Five, the men's basketball league to which Penn belongs, and the splashing in Sheerr Pool has subsided now that last weekend's events are over...
...more adorned her every step. We knew all about it. Time, Newsweek, People, CBS, The National Enquirer and The New York Times had told us so. We listened to the vulgar details for the same reason we watched her on the screen. She is excess. She exploits extremes of love and hate and self-adornment. She articulates those feelings inside us and pushes them to their extremes. Intensity: we love it and we need it. And that need, vicarious or otherwise, is very real. Without the Elizabeth Taylor in us life certainly would be a lot duller...
...have a calm, patient nature. Friends turn to you because you are a good listener. Love bewilders you because people wrongly consider you cold...
...that flaw is understandable, the idea behind the book is to get us to see Alger Hiss as do those close to him, as "Al", the disciplined, kind, warm father and husband who was in the wrong place at the wrong time. So we learn of Al's love for baseball and his Lewisburg homerun (astounding the other inmates), his enthusiasm for the law, and his bleak days in New York City standing in the unemployment line next to actor Jack Gilford. The best part of the book chronicles Hiss's stay in prison and his troubles after returning...
...capitals of Europe, living by his wits, his nerve and a nice instinct for when to get out of town. He dreamed up mining schemes and lotteries, supported himself at the card table, survived imprisonment by the Inquisition, taught manners to princes and, almost constantly it seems, made love to women-servant girls, countesses, prostitutes-leaving a surprising number of them well disposed toward...