Word: personally
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kwan Yew, the prime minister of Singapore, arrived yesterday for a month of study as a Institute of Politics Fellow and pleaded to be treated as "just another anonymous person in Cambridge...
Mailer in his account of the Miami and Chicago conventions makes use of a certain objectivity for literary purposes--he refers to himself in the third person. But this is more than a mere literary device--it is a matter of form, and necessary if he is to maintain an aesthetic distance from his material, and be able to describe his involvement and his feelings with the freedom that impersonality allows. This--when the substance is of permanent or universal interest--is, of course, what makes literature...
Beyond all that, Polk is a leader in publishing city directories and listing every person over 18 in every house hold in 1,400 cities by name, occupation, sex, and ownership or rental situation. From this enormous mass of information, the company is able to offer any paying customer an increasing variety of mailing lists, market research and area studies. Currently it rents names and particulars at the annual rate of $60 million...
There is oleaginous Alexander Woollcott, larding it over Broadway in the person of Jock Livingston-without any sense of what made Woollcott the most powerful critic of his time. There is Noel Coward, every precious diphthong faultlessly mimicked by Daniel Massey -with only the barest dash of the saline wit that has kept him quoted for almost 50 years. And there is Gertrude Lawrence, played by Julie Andrews. Visually, Julie has vanished into the part. The pert little nose has been thickened, the hairline lowered, the eyebrows thinned, the mouth made severe and straight. It is only the emotional makeup...
...women and must transcend the failings of their sex to attain their ideal condition. Manhood is a title conferred; womanhood is a judgment to be escaped. They say "he's a man" in praise of any manifestation of worth; the equivalent for women is "she's a real person." "She's a woman" is said in reference to sexual performance...