Word: m
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...secret. I have wasted several years trying, with due regard to my own tastes, to write lengthily, with a lot of detail and philosophy -striving for the sort of truth I have been talking about. It didn't work out with me. And so, although I'm a devotee of Tolstoy, in order to achieve something I have to work in a way opposite...
What finally redeems Wells for the contemporary reader is the shadow of doubt beneath the bravado-the unspoken but ever-present question of young Wells, the born loser: "What if I'm wrong?" When he was only 25, Wells wrote: "Science is a match that man has just got alight . . . It is a curious sensation, now that the preliminary splutter is over and the flame burns up clear, to see his hands lit and just a glimpse of himself and the patch he stands on visible, and around him, in place of all that human comfort and beauty...
...accident, a black adman (Arnold Johnson) becomes boss of a lily-white Madison Avenue agency. At his first executive meeting, he looks coldly around a conference table filled with apprehensive underlings. "I'm not gonna rock the boat," he promises. Then he proceeds to fire all the white men at the table and replaces them with soul brothers. "Rockin' the boat is a drag," the bearded man yells. "I'm gonna sink it. From now on, this ad agency is gonna be called the Truth and Soul Agency. That's right...
...m not worth one-half of Eldridge Cleaver's bail," Miss Stanley said. "I wish I were." She added that the judge in yesterday's hearings declared "I detest people like you who are trying to destroy America...
...WILL get the poor people off the welfare rolls and onto the payroll." So promised Richard M. Nixon during the 1968 Presidential campaign...