Word: attics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Attic Burglar. His critics accused him of still clinging to the language of nonalignment. Later, in a radio speech in which he announced the fall of Bomdi...
Assistant Secretary of State Phillips Talbot graphically defined the U.S. mission. "We are not seeking a new ally," he said. "We are helping a friend whose attic has been entered by a burglar." In Washington's opinion, it mattered little that the burglar gratuitously offered to move back from the stairs leading to the lower floors and promised not to shoot any more of the house's inhabitants. "What we want," said Talbot, "is to help get the burglar...
Shortly after war's end, he met Visconti and Fellini at Rome's University Theater Center, learned his craft on its stage in everything from Attic tragedy to Arsenic and Old Lace. His deaf mother and blind father would come to the theater, the one to see, the other to hear him. He made 50 films before La Dolce Vita, co-starring in several early ones with another beginner-Sophia Loren. He has high regard for her and she for him. She gets about $1,000,000 for a picture, and he gets around...
...retirement age for janitors and vice presidents; partly, it is a result of the U.S.'s increasing urbanization. Back in 1900, 600 out of every 1,000 Americans lived on farms, where grandparents remained part of the family even if it meant moving into the attic bedroom. In 1960, only 87 in 1,000 Americans still lived on farms, and there is no room for three generations in a city apartment or a suburban housing development...
...funny essays about adult nonsense, shows the world of Louisville as it was seen in 1904 by ten-year-old Virginia Cary Hudson, then a pupil in an Episcopal boarding school. Its publishers say, word of honor, that it is Virginia's work, discovered decades later in an attic trunk by her daughter. The story is that the little Virginia stammered, and her English teacher allowed her to write out her assignments...