Word: priceless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This is the "sanctum sanctorum," said John A. Wolter, flinging open the door to the vault, which was cool and quiet as a tomb. "And this," he continued, sliding out a drawer, "is absolutely priceless." The item at hand was a map, faded so much that to take it in entire one had to squint. Drawn in 1791, it was Pierre L'Enfant's original layout of Washington. And here and there on the document, bleached so faint by time that the eye could not make out the words, were criticisms scribbled by the era's most brilliant fussbudget, Thomas...
...since his return. "I would like to make the greatest understatement of my life," said the smiling priest, "when I say to you, I'm happy to be with you. It is fitting that we are meeting on July Fourth to celebrate the most precious gift we have, the priceless gift of freedom." All the while John Testrake was being driven home to Richmond, Mo., in his red Oldsmobile, he had something on his mind. He passed through small towns that had hundreds of yellow ribbons decorating telephone booths, mailboxes and trees. When he reached Richmond, he was greeted...
...some 700 pages, this is probably more than most people want to know about Mailer, especially when the talk winds down to details of book contracts and postponed deadlines. But there are priceless private scenes: Mailer asking his mother to judge which of five obscenities is the strongest, for example, and a sobering public confrontation when the author meets a hostile press after testifying for Jack Henry Abbott in the ex-convict's trial for the murder of Richard Adan, a Greenwich Village waiter. Mostly the book is grand gossip, a sort of Portable Hamptons, Everyman's own private literary...
...There is for me in science a marvelous beauty, a great exultation, an inexpressible enthusiasm that makes these experiences seem priceless, and I have a great yearning that each of my friends in the audience shall also experience the thrilled yet calm certainty that this beauty makes me feel. I want to fill them with a sense of power, a sense of victory, and a sense of potentiality...
...possesses an abrasive personal style, usually directed at underlings. Members of a U.S. Senate group that met with him in Leningrad in 1978 were shocked at his surly treatment of an interpreter. There is also a scandal in his past: he has been dogged by stories that he borrowed priceless china from Leningrad's Hermitage museum for a daughter's wedding reception and that some pieces were broken. But he is a realist in politics. "Romanov has a controversial reputation, but he will remain a loyalist unless Gorbachev makes a major mistake," says Simes...