Word: singularability
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...President Nixon showed great vigor, a great ability, even in picking me," Kissinger is quoted as saying, apparently in all seriousness; of course he was quite right, but perhaps he should not have been the one to say it. In an interview that fairly bristles with the first person singular pronoun, Kissinger revealed that he loved "acting alone" in his diplomacy: "The Americans love the cowboy who comes into town all alone on his horse, and nothing else. He acts and that is enough, being in the right place at the right time, in sum a western. This romantic...
...extraordinary fascination for biographers. Kings and queens are not, as a rule, very interesting people-the house of Hanover, in particular, had a flair of dullness, except when its sons were deranged by porphyria or brandy-and Victoria was one of the few British monarchs to be a wholly singular creature. "She not merely filled the chair. She filled the room," remarked the Duke of Wellington, a man not easily impressed, when he saw her after she had received the news of William IV's death and her own accession to the throne...
...Spanish justice is still harsh. Death penalties are imposed not by courts but by the army, although Franco has the last word (after a singular outburst of worldwide protest two years ago against Spanish severity, he moved quickly to commute death sentences passed on six Basque separatists). Conscientious objectors, most of them Jehovah's Witnesses, have been in prison for more than ten years at hard labor for refusing on religious grounds to serve in the army...
...today the skin is not an animal's; it is, so to speak, his own. Samaras' retrospective, which opens this week at Manhattan's Whitney Museum, is a singular and fascinating record of anxious self-inspection...
...believed Billy Pilgrim actually went to the planet of Trafalmadore and I doubt if many more will believe that I have lived among the Yalies. But I have, and may someday write a book about it, though I am neither Gulliver nor Herodetus. Suffice it here to note a singular occupational Harvard for a Harvardman at Yale: showing one's true colors. Examples follow...