Word: seeker
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...launches into an abusive harangue, the arctic blasts keep blowing, and the room grows tense. A woman breaks down. It is Wendy, yesterday's enlightenment-seeker with no problems. Hefty housewife now has her coat over her head and is bouncing in her chair. Finally she pops, moaning, screaming and shaking violently. Ron says: "How old are you now? And where are you? Don't think, just look." The woman says she is ten years old and with her parents. She screams that her mother hates her, always has, because she's jealous of her father...
...society's grandest dame, and notices that her "dead-black hair is not entirely her own." He catches a party glimpse of John Jacob Astor III, "slow but agreeable, and much too red in the face." Wherever he goes, Schuyler is publicly deferential, as befits an aging favor seeker. Privately, this self-described "effete Parisian" fills his journal with barbed, often uproarious observations on this "vigorous, ugly, turbulent realm...
...truth seeker is Tom Burnam, an English professor at Portland State University in Oregon, and his compendium is the best antidote to nonsense since H.L. Mencken hung up his spites. "I believe," says Burnam in his introduction to The Dictionary of Misinformation, "that when we fall it's not because our reasoning faculties have tripped us; it's because of the things we know that just aren...
...system should be built from within," an Independent office-seeker. Who asked not to be identified, said. "Taking people from outside hurts the morale of those within...
...royal flush for Fleet Street's sensation seeker, the London Daily Mirror. Princess Anne GETS OBSCENE PHONE CALLS, headlined the paper, disclosing that a devious dialer had uncovered Anne's top-secret number at the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst, where she and Husband Mark Phillips live. Only two days after the number was changed, reported the Mirror, the off-color caller discovered the new royal connection, resumed his work, and at one point "started to whistle the national anthem" before the princess could hang up. Though Buckingham Palace spokesmen dismissed the business as a simple case...