Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Just like Horatio Alger, E. Merl Young began at the bottom of the ladder and worked his way up in no time at all simply because he was personable, persevering alert-and a friend of the man who owned the ladder...
...Austin is no mere mouthpiece. State wants and expects his advice on policy, and he gives it. So far, says Foggy Bottom, there have been no "disputes," only "discussions" between Austin and the Washington policymakers. The Ambassador's foremost chore is to present and advocate the policy ultimately approved by Harry Truman. He and a battery of aides, topped by able Ambassador Ernest Gross, have the important corollary task of canvassing, negotiating and lobbying among other U.N. groups...
...Troubled Sleep, Sartre's characters get to know the bottom of the abyss very well. The news of Volume III of his tetralogy is that some of Sartre's Frenchmen are beginning to see a way out. Says one of them, a Christian: "Let us abandon the idea that our defeat was the effect of chance . . . When a man believes he is the innocent victim of a catastrophe and sits wringing his hands, unable to understand what has happened to him, is it not good news for him to be told that he is expiating his own fault...
...radiomen want "the safe, routine, unspectacular, competent, journeyman script . . . with maybe a fresh twist no bigger than what you give to a lemon peel in a Martini." In TV, the writer is even less important: he "must step aside for Gorgeous George, Garrulous Godfrey . . . westerns, British films from the bottom of the vault, midget autos, roller-skating derbies . . . kitchen and fashion demonstrators, giveaways, and the upper slopes of Faye Emerson." But if he is willing "to curb his imagination" and to look on the medium as "a trade outlet, not an art... it's a living...
...made the football team at Newman School, the quarterback threatened in the middle of a game to beat up Fitzgerald because he didn't have the guts to make a tackle. Already, as he did throughout his life, Fitzgerald judged himself with ruthless accuracy: "I knew that at bottom I lacked the essentials. At the last crisis, I knew I had no real courage, perseverance or self-respect...