Word: bashfulness
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...reigning glory. The freshly completed $3.5 million Tennessee Williams Fine Arts Center, a unit of Florida Keys Community College, was dedicated; the day was officially proclaimed Tennessee Williams Day. His previously unproduced play, Will Mr. Merriwether Return from Memphis?, was given its world premiere. After the curtain dropped, a bash ensued in the theater lobby, complete with torrents of champagne and the sound of jazz classics rendered by the Basin Street Band, flown in from New Orleans for the occasion. A man without peer among living dramatists deserves no less, and he was a warm and affable guest of honor...
...reliving the fears and joys of parachuting behind enemy lines, breaking codes, forging documents and blowing up bridges. The graying, mostly prosperous-looking men and women are veterans of the Office of Strategic Services, the World War II predecessor of the Central Intelligence Agency. The occasion is their annual bash, the William J. Donovan Award Dinner...
...simply that serving alcohol at parties without a license was illegal already, so serving it to underage students made it just a little more illegal. Hard-core partiers insisted it would be worth a day or two in jail just to be able to throw a tremendous bash...
...sound and light shows go, it was a stunner. This time the ageless Pyramids of Giza were bathed in Sinatra as well as lumière. Ol' Blue Eyes, accompanied by Wife Barbara, appeared in Cairo for the first time as part of a three-day bash to raise funds for Wafa Wal Amal, the rehabilitation center for the handicapped that is First Lady Jehan Sadat's favorite charity. Jehan and Barbara struck it off famously, but Sinatra kept mostly to himself until showtime. By then the sand near the Pyramids had been covered with 300 carpets...
Nixon, who invited the Angel players to a recent bash at San Clemente, studies the team stats and can fling a cliché as well as the next fan. Dave Frost, he says, is "a premier pitcher," and Jim Barr "a wily veteran." Nixon sees a low-scoring playoff series between California and Baltimore, with the Angels winning in five games. As he told TIME Correspondent Paul Witteman: "Man for man, down the lineup, I believe the Angels can match them...