Word: mask
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with Taubman's cover story this week on Goalie Bernie Parent of the Philadelphia Flyers, whose very special, harrowing job is examined as part of a long look at the often violent world of professional hockey. "The idea," says Taubman, "is to get behind that fiber-glass mask and find out what makes a man like Bernie tick...
...that's the way it's got to be ..." an irritated Senator Russell Long was heard to say. There he was, swaggering along in the mask of captain emeritus of the Louisiana State Society's annual Mardi Gras Ball in Washington, when he found himself a lawbreaker. Some 15 years ago, he had made a rule that anyone who took off his mask would be fined $50. But when Long approached Honored Guest Betty Ford to claim a dance, a Secret Service man barred his way, saying, "You can't dance with Mrs. Ford until...
...steer him away from writing and into the respectable civil service. When Mishima was only four, his father thought that he would instill manliness in him by holding him as close as possible to a train speeding by; the child's face remained as impassive as a No mask. Later his father would burn Mishima's youthful writing efforts whenever he caught him at them...
...entrance into Tokyo's homo sexual world, which evidently began as a kind of professional voyeurism, the young author detachedly taking notes on the scene at a gay bar. Homosexuality sometimes figured in Mi shima's work, notably in his autobiographical novel, Confessions of a Mask. But it remained only one compartment of his extremely varied private life. Despite the flamboyant outrages he en joyed committing, Mishima had a surprising appetite for respectability. In 1958, partly because he thought it was expected of him, partly because he wanted to please his mother, who apparently was about...
...were more subdued as the Watergate tales unfolded before us, slowly eating away at the mask Nixon liked to call his "mandate." We were numbed by our past experience, and none of it seemed too incredible--except perhaps the man's persistence...