Word: notebooks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Robert Louis Stevenson's wife remembered Hardy as "a pale, gentle, frightened little man that one felt an instinctive tenderness for, with a wife-ugly is no word for it!" While Hardy suffered his fright in silence, Emma kept score of her numerous grievances against him in a notebook titled "What I Thought of My Husband"; Hardy himself discovered it as he was going through his wife's effects after her death and found it so appalling that he threw it in the fire...
...Calais without informing her husband. And continually there is apparently a kind of dreary obeisance to Emma's perpetual pains-her lame knee and sprained ankle, chills and influenza, shingles and failing eyesight. A reader can easily sympathize with a wry line in her husband's notebook: "Love lives on propinquity, but dies of contact...
...touchdowns. It is the best college football team in the U.S.-but it exists only on paper. All season long, perched in some remote corner of the stadium, immune to the blare of the band and the frenzy of the fans, the professional football scout sits with notebook and binoculars, looking for tomorrow's men among today's boys. Last week, as they prepared to back their choices with cash (and lots of it) in the annual players draft, the scouts of both professional leagues took time out to compile their dream team of the nation...
...fever, which marriage puts to bed and cures." In this book of aphorisms, jotted down in the time she can spare from her job as managing editor of Glamour magazine, Authoress McLaughlin impales her prey with the cool detachment of a lepidopterist. A neurotic, according to Neurotic's Notebook, "has perfect vision in one eye, but cannot remember which," and goes through life feeling "like a Christmas shopper who keeps dropping his packages, and it's raining." Other glimpses through the rain...
...this notebook. According to Author McLaughlin, "Insult, not flattery, is the great aphrodisiac." It's good for aphorists...