Word: trailings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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American churchmen, like American politicians, are not leaders but followers, and their trail blazer clearly is not the free and sovereign individual but, rather, "the organizational man." The promoter of church union appeals to churchmen as the promoter of the business merger or industrial combine appeals to politicians...
...Italy or Japan? The game started in London, when after his operation on Nov. 22, he registered in three hotels at once, stood up Prime Minister Harold Macmillan for lunch, and moved on to the Continent. Even Brazilian newsmen trying to follow him lost the trail. Early in December, his diplomatic passport was checked through a customs line at Madrid's Barajas Airport, but no one seems to have seen him. He was reported in Rome by Brazil's Madrid embassy and in Madrid by the Rome embassy...
...faculty tea. In the surf at Santa Monica, he registered a 3-ft. breaker at 80 decibels from a distance of 50 ft., and noted that the high-pitched, cracking noise made by shrimp often climbed to 90 decibels. He unromantically recorded a measurement of 92 decibels on the trail near the bottom of Niagara Falls...
ELMER GANTRY. Burt Lancaster, faultlessly directed by Richard Brooks, roars down the sawdust trail like hell on wheels in this trashy, flashy but grandly entertaining cinemadaptation of the classic Sinclair Lewis satire on that old-time religion...
RABBIT, RUN, by John Updike. This talented, depressing book contains some of the best and some of the most shocking writing of the year. Its hollow, spineless central character leaves a trail of misery and tragedy in the wake of his weakness, a condition that, the author seems to imply, infects a great many average U.S. young men without the stamina to face the facts of life...