Word: singularity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Author Thompson, a British journalist turned war historian, says that Churchill, to save his own skin, fashioned a hero out of a so-so soldier named Bernard Law Montgomery. This will be news to those who have always felt that Field Marshal Montgomery alone was responsible for that singular achievement...
...like to think that Dylan has a message (in the singular) because every time I listen to him or see his movie, Don't Look Back, I get this same identifiable feeling of understanding for not just what he's saying out why he's saying this. What this message, in the singular, is, is an understanding of the kind of life Dylan's living. That's not the details of his life like whether he's wandering around Mexico getting robbed by whores as in Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues. Knowing those details would be kind of interesting...
...these pictures, we maintain a Picture Research staff, whose dozen members mine the world each week in search of the singular picture which will best illuminate a story, whether the subject is king, clown or space capsule. The picture researchers-all of them women-have a hectic work week, since in most cases the question as to which picture will be most effective is not answerable until the story has taken shape. Thus the girls must mix the prophetic with the photographic, culling from many sources hundreds of pictures that may or may not satisfy fast-changing requirements of world...
...fiction; lone duelers against fate people the works of writers as various as Melville, Fitzgerald, Hemingway and Saul Bellow. James Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking and his numerous uptight descendants-the Western marshal, the private eye-are solitary scouts strewing the wilderness with dead Indians and renegades. Still, the singular misfits who tamed the frontier with bile, brawn and bowies were also members of often hostile groups-cattlemen v. sheepherders, for example. Indeed, U.S. history roils with political violence, much of it self-defense by countless groups against what they considered majority injustice...
...pushers, but he manages to maintain his integrity. Amidst defeat and depravity, he nurtures his memories of the country's reach and grandeur, of the days he spent hunting and fishing, and of his pride in earning his living with his hands. It is Author Shetzline's singular achievement that he keeps DeFord and his memories uncorrupted...