Word: personalize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Person to Person (Fri. 10:30 p.m., CBS). Edward R. Murrow interviews Jesse Owens, Leonard Bernstein...
...Battle of Waterloo, people in each of eight age groups enter the setup at 100 guineas a head. The money and interest are invested for 20 years; the interest is split annually among the survivors. As others die, those left behind gleefully rake in more dough until one person takes...
...north, and agreed to follow on horseback. But he galloped right through Edmonton to Ware, nearly 15 miles beyond. Then he turned around and headed for Edmonton again, but once more he rushed through the town and ultimately arrived safely in London, where his travels had begun. The person who went off in all directions was Lord Ronald, a character in Gertrude and the Governess, from Stephen Leacock's (1869-1944) Nonsense Novels. Lord Ronald "flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions...
...prattled only of soldiers and toys, and in the next 18 years expanded his interests to include mistresses, hounds and drinking. Catherine, as Sophia was rechristened when she entered the Russian Orthodox Church, soon sized him up: "I believe that the Crown of Russia attracted me more than his person...
This unhappy tale is told in the first person, a technique that fails because the author predicates a low intellectual ceiling yet a high level of sensibility for Max Harper, and systematically violates both. He contradicts the hero's simplicity by putting such high-flown ideas in his head as this: "A man's mind is the scales and his heart is the balance, and the weight of a matter depends on the heaviness of the heart...