Word: barings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first is this: many people in these last few years, on leaving the sort of position. I have occupied, have also felt impelled to leave the institutions in which they have held them. I feel no such impulsion, and that bare fact means more to me than could ever be explained in a public statement. It also says a great deal about Harvard...
...Victorian farmhouse is a wreck. It is bare wood now, so you can hardly tell it was ever painted. The yard is all high weeds, covered with dog droppings, buzzing with flies. A radio plays through the broken screen door. I can't raise anybody so I go around back, where I find Bill McCorry and Bill McCorry Jr., the owners. The old man wears a cowboy hat and boots, the son has a flattop and cowboy boots, but a city shirt. I ask the son how he's making...
...analysis. What really shook me up was your apparent stress on corporal punishment. ("Her eyes sparkled. 'We are in a birchwood. Perhaps you wish to birch me. Yes?'") I may be square, but frankly I don't get a charge out of whacking somebody on the bare backside. Incidentally, Playboy's September circulation was 5,624,000. How big is yours? -Not So Interested...
Those are the bare facts, but as I followed Francis around the coffee circuit which is the backbone of local politics, it became clear that what looked good on paper was better in person. I suppose the word is smooth, or polished, but he really isn't. What he is is good with a wide range of people. From the eighty year old ladies on Brattle Street to the young blacks in the city he has a feeling for what people respond to and he gives it to them...
...FIRST-TIME reviewer is in a spot. After years of slogging through the editorial pages on safe, dependable Political Analses, he's afraid to bare his artistic judgments before the breakfast-table audience. And when he knows that his first appearance as a critic will also be his last, he may secretly wish that he could make his reputation on something other than a skin-flick review...