Word: personally
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fact that Charles Whitman [Aug. 12] was psychotic and is now dead is unimportant to the unaccountable, unbalanced, whacked-up bunch of people who will strive to perpetrate any crime for the sake of the publicity, as you well know. How can you elevate such a person to that extent? Charles Whitman may be "news"-but isn't there someone in this country who deserved enough commendation last week to have appeared on your cover? You could always resort to a picture of Niagara Falls...
LUCY PAGE MERCER RUTHERFURD, "a sweet, womanly person" whose relationship with Franklin Delano Roosevelt is called "one of the great love stories of American history." See THE NATION...
...insinuatingly linked F.D.R. with Lucy in the 1940s as part of his vendetta against the Roosevelts. In The Crisis of the Old Order, Arthur Schlesinger Jr. wrote that "Eleanor may have sensed something" about her husband's "friendly affection" for Lucy, whom Schlesinger described as "a sweet, womanly person, somewhat old-fashioned in manner but gay and outgoing." Finally, Daniels himself, in his 1954 book The End of Innocence, told of "rumors" involving the pair. But it remained for Daniels' new book to squarely designate Lucy as F.D.R.'s other love...
...novelists write mostly in the first person, and that person speaks comic-strip American: jive jabber, Al Capptions, sportsese. What he says is ironic, defensive, cool, often comical. In all of these novels, the tone of the talk matters more than the shape of the plot. The new pops derive from the traditional novel of sensibility, but their sensibility is fresh and American. Their anti-heroes are the self and abstract of the lonely crowd, the Jonah wandering lost in the modern Leviathan...
More than 100 people came to see what one person called "a poor movie and a spectacular one." Approximately 18 people wrote telegrams to Congressmen and left them for MCSGC to send...