Word: unbidden
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Some of these tragedies came unbidden, like the assassinations and the plane crashes. Some were partly self-inflicted, like the drowning of Mary Jo Kopechne at Chappaquiddick, which happened 30 years almost to the day that J.F.K. Jr.'s plane went down in waters not far from there. Taken together, they make a chain of mishaps that has shadowed the Kennedy name for more than a half-century. But when John and Robert Kennedy were assassinated, their death seemed, if nothing else, at least commensurate with the drama and weight of their public life. When their children die prematurely...
Jenkins offers a different justification in his own life-transforming encounter with poetry: "I realized that a lot of the things that I remembered as I was walking along the street or staring up at the sky were lines of poetry; the words would float up into my mind unbidden...[Poetry] provided a way of understanding the world...
...Iran and Syria. And Washington is still talking about the incident last year in which Salinger, 71, who was John F. Kennedy's press secretary, cornered George Bush at a conference on a cruise ship off the Florida coast. During dinner Salinger rose from his table and went unbidden to the former President's, where he aggressively offered Bush his view that the Gulf War could have been avoided if the U.S. had sent Saddam Hussein a clearer message of its intention to defend Kuwait. Witnesses say that eventually Salinger had to be coaxed away from Bush...
...call one another and where to sit and what to say. It is a place where two doorkeepers stand like griffins by nearly every door, where the interns in the cloakroom will unwrap his Snickers bar for him, where everyone is so civil and cordial they just pitch in unbidden. When Dole ran for majority leader in 1985, his friends watched in horror as he frittered away week after week making speeches instead of locking up votes. John Danforth of Missouri, Bob Packwood of Oregon and John Warner of Virginia finally had to pull Dole aside and read...
Inevitably, a few miles up the trail, where the tree trunks are all cunningly disguised as hungry sows with cubs, the thought comes to me--evil, unbidden, seductive--Why not just exterminate the pests? This, after all, is the human way: if you don't like it, rub it out, down to the last molecule of DNA. Like the smallpox virus, which spent a few millenniums cutting down humans by the tens of millions. Now we've got the last little smidgen of smallpox cornered in some test tubes, scheduled for destruction in 1999. Likewise, let a few hunters loose...