Word: mattering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Eating is a serious business--a matter of man's ultimate adaptibility, involving both a sinister intuitive sense and a strong constitution. Breakfast is a cup of coffee (with cream for added nourishment) and a ten-cent side order of buttered toast. (Harold watches with a surly vigilance; there's always the chance that the grim, spindly individual who passes for an all-night cafeteria cook might slight students on butter.) Harold is careful not to tear apart and devour the bread; his meal is precise and aristocratic, punctuated with frequent glasses of free water...
...finger now and then to dislodge the cards from the stack, the President boomed the words out in bass tones. "The intense publicity lately surrounding the name of Sherman Adams makes it desirable, even necessary, that I start this conference with an expression of my own views about the matter...
...then, could Prudent Sherman Adams get himself under obligation to Bernard Goldfine? It was, as a close friend put it, "probably a matter of drifting." Adams was a member of the New Hampshire legislature when he and Goldfine first met; Lithuanian-born Bernard Goldfine was a personable and fast-rising businessman. Adams was fast-rising too, not in bank accounts but in status. To Goldfine, money alone did not bring status, but he spent freely, gave openly. Adams was flattered by the attention; his bedrock New England heart was moved by the warmth and yearnings of an "immigrant" who wanted...
...Premeditated Slap. These expressions of horror were genuine; yet as a matter of political practice-particularly in the Communist world-leaders of unsuccessful revolutions could expect to end up on the gallows or before the firing squad. Nagy and Maleter might have been quietly executed within a few weeks or months of their seizure, as hundreds of lesser known Hungarian rebels were. But the Russians waited for 18 months and then brutally proclaimed their deed, giving the executions the deliberate quality of a slap in the face to the non-Communist world and of a mighty fist thrust...
...Novel No. 2, The Sixth Heaven, Eustace has turned into a pet of the Oxford esthetes. He has still not made it to the Stately Home set, but this social beatification is only a matter of time. Sister Hilda and he are invited to Anchorstone Hall, ancestral padded seat of the Staveleys, a proud family said to have their coat of arms embroidered even on the bath mats. Dashing Dick Staveley, M.P., is the very man who used to knock down Eustace's sand castles. Now he falls in love with Hilda, and takes her up in his private...