Word: individualistic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...comparison, everything else in the book seems minor, though continually interesting. Inside the Whale is a long, over generous celebration of Novelist Henry (Tropic of Cancer) Miller, in which Orwell sees Miller as a last-ditch individualist thumbing his nose at a mechanized world. England Your England is an impressionistic survey of Orwell's native land, in which he uses such unconventional criteria as the difference between the German's strutting goose step and the English parade step ("merely a formalised walk") to score some shrewd points about the strength of democracy...
...moral cleanup. "The French Revolution collapsed because of the degeneration of the morals of its leaders, who surrounded themselves with loose women." Trotsky, he said, was "not corrupt . . . but he carries within himself another danger that a popular revolution can't tolerate: he's an individualist to his fingertips, a hater of the masses ... He hated us and he despised...
...Grey-Eyed People (by John D. Hess) was a two-tone play whose colors brutally clashed. It told of a suburban individualist who staged a hot-tempered crusade on behalf of a former Communist who ran afoul of the community. Part of the time the author-a veteran TV writer-seemed concerned with a pressing contemporary situation. The rest of the time he merely seemed concerned with what it could yield in laughs...
...Governor Earl Snell was killed in a plane crash, McKay announced in a characteristic way that he would run for the unexpired term: "I'm not mad at anybody. If the people want me, O.K. If they don't, O.K. I'm a rugged individualist exercising my American rights." He won. Re-elected in 1950 by 162,410 votes, he is now considered the strongest political figure in Oregon. As governor, he won a reputation as an excellent administrator, though not as an innovator. McKay is a veteran worker in conservation (he sponsored the nation...
...overalls, doing the chores, the esthetic rebel of the '20s looks a inch the Yankee individualist he is. Once he fired a .38 over the heads of trespassers, who quickly vanished...