Word: loyality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Williams, Tennessee-born George Hamilton gives mere lip service to his role. Alternately sulky or smiling, he drawls convincingly but never seems deeply touched by the megrims of the "hillbilly Shakespeare" whose reaction to fame is to mistreat his wife (Susan Oliver) and bedevil his loyal manager (Red Buttons). Meanwhile, life flits by with all the tired gimcrackery of a vintage M-G-M musical-stock shots of triumphant headlines, cheering crowds and bestselling sheet music. The only difference is that Hamilton, star of a group called the Drifting Cowboys, is signed up by Grand Ole Opry instead...
Stampp is particularly acute and concise in his sketches of Lincoln and Johnson. These architects of Reconstruction faced three broad problems: the formation of loyal state governments in the South, the treatment of those who had voluntarily supported the Confederate government (who were therefore subject to trial for treason), and the future of the Negro. Both Presidents were deeply concerned with the first two issues, but they approached the Negro problem with distrust and dismay, not with imagination...
...huge majority of club members grow extraordinarily loyal to their clubs. Though most will admit that status considerations were uppermost in their miinds when they first joined a club, they now value their club experience for the close friendships they have formed. One member of the Faculty, himself a club man, feels that the clubs serve a positive function by temporarily taking the Harvard undergraduate's mind off himself and his work...
...loyal readers of British spy fiction, it seems almost incredible that the cold-eyed watchdogs of counterintelligence in Whitehall could let H.M.G.'s closest secrets slip into the hands of the enemy. Yet Atom Scientist Klaus Fuchs got away with it, and so did Donald Maclean and Guy Burgess of the Foreign Office, not to mention the more recent indiscretions of Admiralty Clerk, William Vassall...
Young Lyndon insisted upon respect from his pupils. He spanked disorderly boys, tongue-lashed the girls. He taught fifth, sixth and seventh grades, demanded that his classes greet him daily with a loyal refrain...