Word: talking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...another in James Bond, Matt Helm, and the rest of the gang. But Hammett's characters, Sam Spade, Nick Charles, and the others, were different from their modern apostles. Because they were more than detectives, smart, tough guys. They were people that you really wanted to meet, to talk to, to learn from, and later go with to the local bar and have a great time...
This change, continued Eisenstadt, is especially evident in the new generation of sabras (native-born Israelis). "The new generation thinks the oldsters are great masters of talking but they don't want to talk about pioneering and the pioneering spirit. This doesn't mean that they are no longer committed; they just don't verbalize and idealize...
...poem not written by Wilbur, a poem with tired wit and obvious comparisons and nothing to keep the mind or the ear occupied." The Wilbur poem itself was exemplified by one of his finest books from that era, Things of This World (1956) which dared to include sonnets, to talk about the soul, to cope with a language unselfconscious in its striving to acknowledge the Metaphysical poets or Romanticism...
...belongs to other ages than his own, without ignoring the crises of the present. In a rare political poem he read at Harvard, Wilbur spoke of President Johnson's less than gracious response to a portrait he commissioned; "Wait, sir, and see how time will render you,/ Who talk of vision but have no sight." "The Marginal Way," a poem about the dying capacity for celebration, confessed "the time's fright within me," alluding to Auschwitz, and knew some newspaper on a porch would "flap the tidings of some dirty...
...administration? Why is it that only after confrontations are open meetings on large issues ever held? It need not be this way. Paine Hall began in resentment and anger. It could so easily end in tragedy. But it could also mark the beginning of a time when people will talk to each other more openly, more honestly, not as tokens in an ideological struggle, but as human beings equal to themselves in worth. It could mark the beginnings of a free and humanistic politics and an end to the politics of confrontation and ultimatum. For the politics of ultimatum...