Word: truman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...were suddenly to fall silent? Easy: No. In fact, there is something to be said for the idea. What if John Updike were to stop writing? A shame, but not a duster for American culture. Walker Percy? Joyce Carol Gates? Donald Barthelme? No. Philip Roth? Joseph Heller? William Styron? Truman Capote? John Gardner? John Irving? Norman Mailer? Stop It gets to be a pogrom. The mind flips through its card catalogue. Very few disastrous silences loom...
...salesman-and of course that is, in a sense, what he has always been. Opera Singer Grace Bumbry wants to be a professional race-car driver. Bill Veeck, former owner of the Chicago White Sox, confides the alternate Veeck: a newspaperman. In a "nonfiction short story," Truman Capote wrote that he wanted to be a girl. Andy Warhol confesses without hesitation: "I've always wanted to be an airplane. Nothing more, nothing less. Even when I found out that they could crash, I still wanted to be an airplane...
...girls were lovely; certainly they were daring. Lula Easton gave an oration called "Sculptors of Government." One wonders if she dwelt on Chester A. Arthur, the first voluptuary to hold the presidency. Even then he was planning to decorate the White House to resemble a gambling parlor. (Harry Truman claimed that the self-indulgent Arthur harbored a woman of sin on the premises.) Back then, Greenfield High School's Nellie Garlock may have had all this in mind when she recited "Virtue's Laurels...
...trifle selfabsorbed. "The world is a seamless web," Susan declares at one point, which means that telling the story of how they met forces them to start all the way back at the Big Bang. A corollary of this notion troubles Susan: "We don't believe that Harry Truman created the Central Intelligence Agency for the sake of this story, do we?" Fenwick does not answer...
...that we would go with whatever is most effective Television ads with public personalities speaking out on the horrors of being gay, educational campaigns in the nation's schools on gayhood as a social deformity, that type of thing. It would probably be somewhat similar to President Truman's successful effort to stir up fear and hatred for the Russians. All we need are more elected officials, or a strong leader outside everyday politics (Director, could it be you?), who are willing to take a stand. And before you know it guys and other minorities of our choice will...