Word: richness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...JOURNAL. "Plumes for My Rich Aunt." British Journalist Alan Whicker describes the world of Paris haute couture as glamorized by models "who can wear furs in August, swimsuits in December . . . and look snooty and deadpan even with sand in their shoes" in this bizarre peek at the citadel of high fashion. Interviews with Designers Gerard Picard and Pierre Balmain...
...Regarding "The Rich-Back to the Ould Sod" [June 28] perhaps the most conspicuous Mellon by his absence from the family's rendezvous was Larimer W. Mellon Jr., who, as a physician, dedicated, built and for the past twelve years has run the Albert Schweitzer Hospital in Deschapelles, Haiti along with his wife Gwen. Larry Mellon's forte has been in giving all of his monies away to a hospital cen ter dedicated to the care of over 300,000 patients in a rural setting who otherwise would be without this resource. He is my nominee...
...central theme of speeches and skull sessions alike was the gulf between rich and poor nations, and the moral dilemma posed by that fact for churchmen. Zambia's President Kenneth Kaunda struck the keynote -"the end of an era of optimism," and the "disappointment and disillusionment" of the newly independent nations. In underdeveloped countries, he charged, the West "seeks only maximum profit and makes development a mere windfall gain -mere crumbs falling from the rich man's table." Simplistic as it sounded, Kaunda's speech reflected the mood of the "third world" as voiced at Uppsala...
Oskar Werner is the Him-a famous symphony orchestra conductor (instead of a violinist when Leslie Howard played Him in Intermezzo 29 years ago). Egocentric, arrogant and glamorously rich, he purrs out to his country estate in a brown Bentley convertible for impeccably served alfresco lunches between rehearsals. Sprightly, blonde Barbara Ferris is the lissome young newspaper reporter sent to interview the great conductor. From then on, it seems, neither of them gets any work done, but they have a lot of fun twirling about in the vortex of a Technicolor London-little restaurants, antique shops, bed, concert halls...
When John Hersey, determined to do a book on the Detroit riots, chose to concentrate on the events at the Algiers Motel, he had settled on an incident rich in tragedy and drama, one that is a good basis for a novel. He chose, however, to explore the situation in a work of reportage, foregoing his opportunity, as perhaps the best-informed observer of the affair, to propose answers to moot questions and to make judgements on the players and the action of the drama. One wishes he had written the novel, or at least darned the holes...