Word: yourselfing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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One paragraph, Hamlet-like in itself, sums up the strengths and the weaknesses of André Gide: "I hope the young man who may read me will feel on an equal footing with me. I don't bring any doctrine; I resist giving advice; and in a discussion I...
You drink yourself to death. You become obsessed by sex. You spend all your time talking . . . You are an expatriate, see? You hang around cafes.
"It seems to me that you, the Fellows, and most of the Board of Overseers have consistently revealed--and are still revealing--apathetic naivete about the whole question of the Kremlin-inspired subversion of our Blessed Country. Were it otherwise, you and they would know that one of the prime...
A native Phoenician who stopped his formal training in high school, Long learned an invaluable lesson soon after he began building: "It's easier and cheaper to do it yourself than to subcontract. And volume is the key to continued growth." Long hired his own crew, used every known...
Yakking in the Blue. At the outset, Kerouac warns what he is up to: "The other night I had a dream that I was sitting on the sidewalk on Moody Street. Pawtucketville, Lowell, Mass., with a pencil and paper in my hand saying to myself 'Describe the wrinkly tar...