Word: personal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Scarisbrick [Aug. 2] mentioned that Anne Boleyn, second wife of King Henry, said "a gentler nor a more merciful prince was there never" before being beheaded. This may not mean that the King was an admirable character, since it was traditional in those days for condemned persons to say a good word for the monarch before their death. If a convicted person started a last-minute inflammatory tirade against the monarch, he could be dragged off at the very last minute, to a much crueler death...
...could get together soon. Rockefeller did not disagree but noted that after the convention, he was going to the family estate at Seal Harbor, Maine. "I'm off to California," replied Nixon. The conversation ended on that high note. The next night Rockefeller appeared on the platform in person to offer congratulations. Unlike 1964, when he was loudly booed by the convention, he was given a two minute ovation...
...Trib also ran a description of the convention as it might have been written by Norman Mailer, who was covering the event for Harper's. "Mailer," began the Tribune in the third-person style of the author's The Armies of the Night, "came to Miami Beach with a great sense of Dread. He saw John Lindsay right away and that gave him a sharper sense of guilt because his article had elected Lindsay mayor in 1965, and Lindsay had turned out to be an adequate square. He had no existential dimension. By then it was time...
...Every tormented person in the West makes one think of a hero of Dostoevsky with a bank account...
...person who desires to consume, then you won't mind so much the social differences between classes, and you can live easily with the free enterprise system. But there's a comfort in being free of the constant exposure to economic competition, to the struggle to earn money. Not everyone likes this atmosphere...