Word: whirling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year-old widower with a grown son, Scheel in July married an attractive Munich physician who will be a welcome addition to Bonn's diplomatic whirl. For the easygoing Scheel, however, his new eminence imposes a few regrettable strictures. Not the least of them is that he can no longer wear loud sports jackets or whiz about Bonn in his zippy BMW 2500 sedan ("the businessman's sports car"). Even a foe of pretension must allow himself to be chauffeured in a stately black Mercedes if he also happens to be West Germany's Foreign Minister...
...will stay pretty much the same, though it will be "less personal"-Anderson's respectful way of saying that he won't play favorites. Pearson, the charmer, was susceptible to social graces in others. But Anderson, a nondrinking, nonsmoking family man (nine children), avoids the Washington social whirl. If anything, the column can be expected to get tougher...
...simpler tastes of their humble beginnings. But younger congressional leaders, such as Carl Albert and Gerald Ford, also avoid convivial Washington, finding their pleasures in home and family. Like the patriarchs of Congress, they feel no need for the social acceptance so avidly sought by many in the Washington whirl. As one Senate wife observed: "They don't go out a lot or entertain, except for close personal friends. They don't need to. They're there...
...whirl around a room...
NOTEBOOK begins with poems to his daughter Harriet--throughout he invokes her, age 9, 10 1/2, 11, for what she can be, love, and know beyond him--"God as seaslug, God a queen with forty servants, God. . .she gave up--things whirl in the chainsaw bite of whatever squares the universe by name and number." Harriet--outside, in life, sometimes is able to see through "the fog" which her father like "the first philosopher. . .trying to pick up a car key clumsily opaques with his headlights." Harriet appears frequently in the poems--to clarify, identify, be, to be hoped...