Word: personality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Word came that Brobdingnagian Boozer Jackie Gleason, 49, would be dropping by to help open the Lutheran Church's Youth Conference in Miami Beach. Suddenly there were righteous snorts all over Convention Hall. "He is not the kind of person," harrumphed one delegate, to be associated with 8,000 impressionable young Lutherans. Nonsense, replied Theologian J. Benjamin Bedenbaugh: "Why, Jesus spent more time with the Jackie Gleasons of his day than with the professors of theological seminaries." About 300 delegates canceled out, but when the bibulous Great One finally appeared, the others gave him a standing ovation...
...writing such an enlightening report on India. I may not agree with everything you have said, but I admit that reading your report is like looking at oneself in a mirror. I particularly appreciate the comment, "Indians have no will to work," and I am sure that every thinking person will take your comments in the right spirit...
...ARTICLE ON FASHION IN TIME, DATED AUG. 13, DISPARAGES MY WINTER COLLECTION. NO PERSON FROM TIME'S ORGANIZATION HAS SEEN MY COLLECTION, AND I THEREFORE QUESTION TIME'S RIGHT TO HAVE ANY OPINION, EITHER FAVORABLE OR UNFAVORABLE. THE STATEMENT THAT I "FLED" BEFORE THE COLLECTION HAD BEEN COMPLETELY SHOWN AND THAT THERE WAS NO APPLAUSE IS SIMPLY FALSE. IN FACT, THE MODELS WERE GENEROUSLY APPLAUDED SEVERAL TIMES...
...himself, Author Tarsis writes: "He found it unbelievably painful to live. The only way of life offered him was intolerable, unworthy of men, fit only for insects. What was at stake was not a political regime but the one all-important issue: whether man as an individual, as a person, is to exist or not. All around him were faces exposed by sleep or contorted by nightmares; he alone was awake. It is always hard to be the only one awake, and it is almost unbearable to stand the third watch of the world in a madhouse, when it seems...
...Yellowstone River (" Tis such a suck to it that to sink is a gone fawn skin") with his bunch of cattle. The work was hard, McCauley recalls, but the company was cheerful. After a rugged day on the trail, there was hot grub and mescal liquor to pleasure a person, and down Mexico way there were bullfights too-though it did "look like a man was getting tola-ble low to fight a duel with a bull when he could easy get out of it." Now and then the cowpoke got to a big city. San Francisco was his favorite...