Word: thrills
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hurd rarely paints high noon. "All phases of light, its constantly changing patterns, thrill me," he says. With each painting, he increases his dissection of his skeletal landscape through the hours and seasons of the sun. "I feel like shouting This is me.'" The wilderness, indeed, is Hurd. One of the few times he ventured abroad was as a LIFE artist-correspondent during World War II. Friends urge him to travel, but he says, "Nuts. I'd be painting postcards...
Sometimes I get the feeling that life at Harvard is a dull three-cornered routine: classes, meals, library. But then I stumble on an issue of, for example, the Record American. HARVARD stands tall in the headlines. "Harvard," I reflect with a quick thrill of self-recognition. Harvard/5000 equals...
Under the barrage of abuse, Lilienthal was often tempted to quit. But he had second thoughts, as he noted candidly. "Though I don't think I am pathologically vain, there is a thrill in being a celebrity and in the kudos that go with that state. Playing the great man-it is a sweet draught and no mistake...
...what may be an ultimate even in Hollywood home projection facilities, Wasserman's movie-screening room is actually a separate building-with a sliding aluminum roof and enough couch-side buttons to thrill General Sarnoff-one for controlling stereo, others for tape machines, radio, and the movie sound-track volume. As he sits in this room and judges all he has done in the past few years, he has a great deal more in mind than the simple Hollywood formula: "If it makes money, it's good...
...expounds on such themes, he is at his least interesting. Doubtless what he says is true, but it is also platitudinous; surely no one reading that "there is a profound causal relationship between the height of a man's ambition and the depth of a man's fall" will thrill at the keenness of the insight. The Hammarskjold revealed by observations like this is still the conscientious public servant that we have always seen...