Word: passion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This week the baseball season ends with that annual national passion-the World Series. NBC will carry the games in color. Otherwise TV settles down, after the flurry of the new season's shows, into its normal format...
...Delight, Abe Lincoln in Illinois, There Shall Be No Night) and speechwriter to President Roosevelt. In this effusive biography, Critic John Mason Brown leans heavily on the lighter side. The reader hears all about Sherwood's sensational buck and wing, his low-keyed Algonquin witticisms, his red-eyed passion for high-stakes poker, model airplanes, and croquet in Central Park at $10 a wicket. Unhappily, Biographer Brown requires 386 pages to take his subject from 1896 to 1939; and there he stops, just as Sherwood's most interesting years are about to begin. A sequel is promised...
...being conducted with the same passion that the U.S. brings to its successive crusades against disease and, on occasion, to its foreign policy. The bureaucratic warriors are joined (and sometimes fought) by a whole new group of ideologues of poverty, notably including Michael Harrington, who "discovered" the new poverty in his 1963 book, The Other America, and sociologist Saul Alinsky, a tireless agitator and polemicist who travels from city to city advising the poor on how to organize for uplift. Underlying the anti-poverty campaign is the uniquely American belief-surprisingly often correct-that evangelism, money and organization can lick...
...Prairie wagons were built for maneuverability and speed-but were not expected to outlast their westward journey. Steamboat racing became a popular passion, despite its appalling accident record: between 1825 and 1850 at least 150 major explosions on western steamboats ("half boat, half alligator") killed more than 1,400 people. The railroads, hastily and flimsily built, also had an appalling accident rate. No one seemed to mind that railroad travelers were jammed together in long boxlike cars without distinction of social class and that stopovers were brief. In time the quick lunch-counter meal became an American institution; gregariousness...
...woman. Goethe's problem, says Friedenthal, was one that commonly afflicts the creative temperament: he experienced every woman as a potential mother and himself as an eternal child. To the end, Goethe carried this trace of the infantile, a cold little core of narcissism that all his genuine passion and warmth could never quite dissolve. It accounts for the arrogance of his old age, but it also accounts for the surging incredible productivity of those years-the eternal child in Goethe was an unfailing source of creativity. In the last half of his life Goethe completed five major dramas...