Word: beare
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Keith. It is a very big, very ugly theatre patronized by the Medicare crowd (large groups of garrulous old ladies who perpetually explicate the action for one another--e.g. "Oooh, now he's holding her hand."--and the clusters of teenage couples playing kissy-face and huggy-bear...
...beginning of the winter track season, Crimson coach Bill McCurdy played the Bear Bryant role to perfection; he said that when February 29 rolled around, Army, Yale, Princeton, and Navy would all be slugging it out with his boys for the indoor Heptagonals championship...
Everyone who came to meet his plane wore a fur hat, and the sight was too much for him to bear. "Man, we got to have those!" he told his sidemen, and for fear that the hat stores would be closed before they could get to downtown Helsinki, they fled from the welcome-to-Finland ceremonies as fast as decency permitted. And sure enough, when Thelonious Monk shambled out on the stage of the Kulttuuritalo that night to the spirited applause of 2,500 young Finns, there on his head was a splendid creation in fake lamb's-wool...
...Favorite Sport? tries to capture the spirit of madcap comedy but turns out to be mostly old hat. As an ace sporting-goods salesman at the San Francisco emporium of Abercrombie & Fitch, Rock Hudson plays the kind of city-bred softie who can't bear to eat a fish, much less catch one. But when Publicist Paula Prentiss proposes that he represent Abercrombie's in the Lake Wakapoogee fishing tournament, it's either go to Wakapoogee or lose the job. Braving the enameled wilderness devised by Producer-Director Howard Hawks, Rock soon finds himself...
...from dead: he is alive and still writing copiously. Consequently Spears had to ask himself how much biographical material he could judiciously include without appearing to pry at the poet's private life. Furthermore, if he wants to write another book on Auden later, he has to bear in mind what the subject's reaction to the present one would...