Word: personality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Greenness & Greyness. For all its virtues, which are many, and its faults, which are considerable, London has a large measure of that special quality that was once the hallmark of great cities: civility in the broadest sense. It takes away less of a person's individuality than most big cities, and gives the individual and his rights more tolerance than any. In texture, it has developed into a soft, pleasant place in which to live and work, a city increasing its talents for organizing a modern society without losing the simple humanity that so many urban complexes lack...
...jury returned a sizable verdict for Edith Soronen, and the defendants appealed. A tavern may be liable to an innocent third person injured by a drunk whom it has helped to tank up, but must it also be its pickled brother's keeper? defendants asked. Yes, the New Jersey Supreme Court said last week. "Contributory negligence is not available as a defense to a liquor licensee who has sold alcoholic beverages to a visibly intoxicated person." Quoting a lower court approvingly, Judge Nathan Jacobs said that the law barring sales to drunks would be "meaningless, if a tavernkeeper could...
Soronen's wife sued the inn and James Frei, the bartender who served her husband, charging that they had negligently caused her husband's death by selling him whisky when he was visibly drunk. The defendants denied responsibility, claiming that Soronen was not "a visibly intoxicated person" when he entered the Olde Milford Inn-an observation that was supported by the testimony of several patrons. But what if Soronen was drunk? the defendants went on. That would have made his accidental death the result of his own "contributory negligence." In either case, Frei and the tavern argued, they...
...teacher, Rogers explained, should allow his real feelings to show to his students, not try to hide them by playing a role. He should prize the student as a person of worth, and he should try to understand the students' feelings without judging...
Proust might have objected that he was real, while Marcel was in the book. What sets Berryman off from Henry is not the simple ontological difference between a character and a person, but the anguish and brilliance of Berryman's effort to make the distinction between the two of them clear and efficient. It is as if the poet, arguing from a feared poverty of emotional or experiential resources, has peopled his poem with a number of lively selves that cooperate in the restoration of personality. A bright, bitter, courtly, intensely human man is writing an autobiographical poem that turns...