Word: nervously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Baldwin has already devoted a good deal of time to discussing about these things, and it now appears that his efforts may be damaging his own writings. Edmund Wilson, in the 30's, was affected by the tension between himself and his society to the point of suffering a nervous breakdown, as Baldwin had also done in the 1950's. But Wilson, while attempting to clarify things for himself, produced some excellent first-hand journalism as well as some first rate academic work on political and literary subjects. Re-reading these works now we sense a mind that was continuing...
...Much. In a regular rodeo, the ropers get two calves apiece. This time it was twelve calves per man. and, by starting time, upwards of $100,000 had been bet on the match. "I'm not nervous," Oliver insisted. "Not much, anyway. But when you get a thing going like this, with money ridin', you try so much harder. It's the pressure that gets you-not the calves...
Spins & Raves. Despite his position as resident brain-truster for the Duke of Saxe-Weimar, Goethe was still a deeply disordered man. He had recovered from a near nervous breakdown, apparently brought on by an early wallow in romantic agonizing in which he alternately "melted and raved" like his hero Werther. The routine of official duties had steadied him. He had studied science and accepted the soothing ministrations (thought to be platonic) of an older woman named Charlotte von Stein. But she had encouraged him to write only fanciful verse that had nothing to do with life or the natural...
...time, if ever there was one, for the tic. It was time for all the attractively nervous and neurotic gestures, twitches and gloom, that have long characterized the performances of Judy Garland. She came on stage last week in Chicago's great Arie Crown Theater and, after telling the 5,000 people there that she was so happy she just wanted to sing, started out with Hello Bluebird. Bluebird got stuck in her throat. She hacked and coughed and failed to clear it. "The bluebird is in a little trouble," she said cheerfully...
...several government administrative boards, pays particular attention to the power company, the biggest Kadoorie investment. He collects ancient Chinese art works because "it gives me a sense of calmness," and dotes on sports cars because "they're cheaper than race horses or concubines." Horace Kadoorie, 60, a nervous bachelor, oversees, the brothers' philanthropies and is involved in "trams, ferries, wharfs and rubber plantations-but I'm not very much interested in business...