Word: war
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite his optimistic, convivial manner, Robert Alex Baron, 49, knows true frustration all too well. For three years he has waged a lonely, almost quixotic war on the steadily mounting crescendo of urban noise...
Nearly all of them demonstrate a decline in skill and difficulty in making a cohesive composition. Several artists experienced difficulty in holding pencil or brush. One became paralyzed; another traumatically relived his experiences as a World War II flyer. Under the drug, an artist may lose all desire to create anything at all. His capacity for self-criticism is seriously damaged, and the classic reaction on seeing his work in the cold light of day is that it seemed so much better when he was making...
Frightfully Interesting. Poet John Betjeman, for example, paid tribute to his stuffed, 60-year-old ursine friend "Archibald Ormsby-Gore" in his work Summoned by Bells ("Safe were those evenings of the pre-war world/When I turned to Archibald, my safe old bear"). The late Donald Campbell set new speed records with his "Mr. Woppit" along for the ride, and Mountain Climber Walter Bonnati got through one low point on his solitary trek up the Matterhorn's north slopes by confessing his "sins" to Zissi, a tiny Teddy in his knapsack. Princess Alexandra of Kent became almost inconsolable when...
...girl across the table told me how the nurses gave her "a double arm." The first nurse missed her vein so another nurse tried her luck on the other arm. The guy next to me said he was giving blood to protest the war. I did not have any pat answer explaining my reasons, but part of it was because giving blood is like giving money to charity-except it gets under your skin a lot more...
Everett L. Mendelsohn, professor of the History of Science, explained the novel decision as "the Administration's final realization that a major part of this community does not support the war." "It's student money and they should be able to redesignate the way they feel it should be used." he added...