Word: window
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...critics has little time left for leadership. Across Wisconsin Avenue, the lights were out and the Venetian blinds lowered to a uniform level in the National Institutes of Health buildings; last year the wasting candlepower and higgledy-piggledy blinds had troubled Johnson when he looked out of his window at night...
Still, many who kill themselves have an understandable desire for extinction-Shneidman and Farberow call them "surcease" suicides. Brilliant, hard-driving lames Forrestal, the first U.S. Defense Secretary, who threw himself from a 16th-story hospital window in May of 1949, was suffering from a mental breakdown and decided that life was unendurable with his mind impaired. Novelist Virginia Woolf also killed herself (in April 1941) because she thought she was going mad. Poet Hart Crane was seriously deranged when he killed himself in April 1932, as was Ernest Hemingway when he blew his brains out with his favorite shotgun...
Through a One-Way Window. Some critics have said Bacon only paints his own despair. "I'm a drifter," admits Bacon, who confesses to living in a hazy homosexual underworld. But, he continues, "I have seen the despair of so many people, whether they are young or old, and it doesn't appear to be much different whether they are homosexual or heterosexual. It's possible that loneliness haunts homosexual people more, especially toward old age." If so, Bacon, now 57, bends his despair to the manner...
...many people come to a good end in the pages of John O'Hara. Lissome Andrea Cooper departs through a hotel window. Jimmy Rhodes dies of a precoital heart attack. Charles Kinsmith slips on the ice and expires after a bout of total recall. John Wesley Evans discovers that he is going blind. General Dixon L. Hightower quietly turns transvestite. Even Jack Harrison aboard his luxury yacht is oppressed by the thought that his crew plans to kill...
...Whaddya mean, 'What does a peace campaign prove'?" the bearded little man flashed at me, as we turned into the Window Shop. Without any sign of irritation he calmly put me down: "You shouldn't think that a peace campaign has to be some grand gesture, girl. Maybe that's the way Thomas Boylston Adams operated his campaign but, in California, we're different...