Word: thoughtful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Museum Piece? The real objection, in many Senators' minds, was not to the pact but to the arms program. Dulles and Arthur Vandenberg said they were two separate matters. The State Department thought they were linked by implication but actually independent...
March 31, v. an operating loss of $16 million for the previous year. In the last three months, traffic had picked up so much that many an airline (e.g., American, United, Capital and Western) which had losses in 1949's first quarter thought it had earned enough in the second quarter to wipe them out and show a profit besides. American, for example, might well show a net of close to $3,000,000 for the first six months, more than enough to offset its entire 1948 loss...
...Sherman Fairchild's first act was to pick Richard Boutelle, the plant boss whom Ward had ordered out of the plant a week ago for supporting Fairchild, as the new president of the company. Fairchild would hold no office other than director. But this time he thought the president would pay some attention to his ideas...
...Baxter, tingting, looked, tingting, at tingting, the tingting, clock, ting-ting." Random thoughts churned around in Baxter's stream of consciousness like rampaging underwear in an electric washing machine. "Goddamn you, Archibald Mac-Leish!" he thought: "And you, Dos Passes ... So Hitler must be stopped? . . . Oh, but-and-oh, but-what're yuh doin'? . . . Oh, the lousy lousy lousy LOUSY mess! Why isn't it 1922 instead of 1942? And I-twenty-two, walking through the Tuiler-o-o-o with a copy of Ulysses . . ." And where was Lisa, murmuring with her "pink-lipped, delible pout...
...whole of this novel, Hero Baxter is at odds with himself, is in constant danger of being unable to keep his seat on a barstool, or is busy escaping the hot clutches of girl friends and trollops. Through it all, Baxter permits the reader to share his every picayune thought and gesture, e.g., "He dropped the match. It fell-thhhh-into the cuspidor...