Word: summum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...without Words I and Illuminations are curious productions. The first an accelerated and expurgated history of humankind. Paul Schmidt is The Man and for perhaps fifteen vaguely humorous minutes he clutches at the summum bonum. Then he declines, as do we all to a blasted heap of insensibility. It is worth the fifteen minutes, I think, just to see Paul Schmidt portray a blasted heap...
...Summum Bonum. When he entered Harvard, in 1932, David began to grow up socially. A friend remembers that "he was a pudgy 17, and every ambitious mother in Boston was pushing her daughter at him." At a dance during his freshman year, he met Peggy McGrath, the vivacious daughter of New York Lawyer F. Sims McGrath. Eight years later he married her, after a courtship consisting largely of dancing dates ("He is still the dreamiest waltzer in the world," says Peggy) and endless phone calls...