Word: envious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...student at Princeton, Ralph settled into his lone, irregular lifestyle. Always a late-night worker, he was given a key to Woodrow Wilson Hall so that he could study after hours. He righteously refused to lend that key to envious friends who wished to visit the dark, vacant study hall with their dates...
...vision of a nightmare where "the world grows immense. a chamber of horrors. a tortured world." Another, from the year before, notes that Citizen Kane "magnifies a thousand times the drama of emptiness." A letter from Miller in Hollywood complains that "people are poor in spirit, low, mean, envious." Everywhere is the sense of chaos, of a suffocating cosmos. What is most remarkable about the Diary is its evocation of an age: Miller, Eugene O'Neill, the moribund Kenneth Patchen: they move like ghosts through the long years of the War. animated, prodded back into life in the pages...
...pools, sautéing in the sun, packing across the Sierra, frolicking nude on the beaches, getting taller each year, plucking money off the trees, romping around topless, tramping through the redwoods and-when they stop to catch their breath-preening themselves on-camera before the rest of an envious world. "I have seen the future," says the newly returned visitor from California, "and it plays...
...test was so clearly positive as to make George Wallace envious. Cheers and rebel yells greeted Nixon, and home made signs assured him that he was warmly welcome. "Pat, you got a good man," said one sign. "Not many Republicans here, but lots of Nixoncrats," read another. When the President waded into the crowd to shake hands, he ignited a frenzy of affection unlike any thing seen in American politics since the campaign of the late Robert Kennedy. Adoring kids charged across police lines, girls squealed, babies cried, one woman fainted and another reached out to muss Nixon...
...memory. Dean Price is well suited to his role in the purge. His practiced eye sees through the facade of a fight against ROTC and Harvard expansion and gets to the real core of the difficulty-misconduct, just like that of the Vietnamese and the Colombian students attacking Rockefeller, envious as they are of American riches. Norman Daniels...