Word: notes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dominant note" in the U.S. social climate, said Nye, is fear-"fear that you will fall behind in the display of ostentatious personal expenditure, fear that dandruff or body odor might lose you your sweetheart, fear of this, fear of that, fear for your job, fear that you might be thought to hold views repugnant to your employer...
...more than $20,000 (mostly in donations), read some "rather grim" Ransom works to the audience of 750, then sat back to enjoy an auction of books and literary curios. Most curious curio, one of a batch of letters sent over the years to various magazine editors: a terse note from Calvin Coolidge to Sumner Blossom, onetime editor of American Magazine. Wrote Cautious Cal: "I have not written anything on the subject to which you refer and do not expect to write anything on it. In giving you this information I am trusting that you will not make any improper...
...curt over bereavement just as the 19th century was too expansive over it." Who really knew how to mourn? "The Greeks. They wept, they recovered, they recalled." What is old age? "Both by its practitioners and by its observers, it is approached too rhetorically and on too sustained a note-the whine of the gnat, the organ pedal diapasoning, the boom of the bittern, are among its musical accompaniments. The old person is assumed, and often affects to be, all of a piece-disgusting, pitiful, pretentious, peevish, noble, ingratiating, moody, and so on. It is really more varied, a seductive...
...last exultant phrase ("Only my blood is lacking to finish the crime, and this will be shed!"), Callas took a single step forward-so dramatic that people all but jumped. She raised a commanding hand over her head, then threw her arms wide and sent that last full note straight up through the roof...
Bumper Crop. In Richmond, Pedestrian Fred Van de Water observed on the windshield of a large four-door sedan a neatly printed, unsigned note that read: "You may not realize that a small English sports car is parked behind you. Please be careful not to run it down...