Word: boasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Maggie married Benny Tomasello, whose greatest virtue (in Maggie's eyes) was his modest record as a petty criminal. In 1944, after she had a baby girl, Maggie divorced Benny. Four years later she married Bobby O'Connor. While hanging out the wash, she used to boast to neighbors about what a good provider Bobby was. Bobby hardly ever had to work more than a couple of nights a month. For her part, Maggie was as dutiful a wife as a man could ask for: she usually drove the getaway car for Bobby and his gang. But Bobby...
...Army van rumbled around the rim of the playing field at Philadelphia's Municipal Stadium. The sign on its side was a proud boast: "Secret Weapon." Then the tail gate dropped and a pair of girl cheerleaders pranced out. It was a thin gag. The Brave Old Army Team needed more than that to sink Navy. It needed, most, someone like last year's crack passing quarterback. Pete Vann. Still a student at the Point. Vann marched in the massed, grey Corps of Cadets, but he had used up his athletic eligibility...
...Difference. Though the Russians boast loudly of providing education for all. their school system is not as democratic as it sounds. The regular ten-year elementary and secondary program is merciless: in 1954. less than 126 out of every 1,000 pupils who had started it managed to survive for graduation. But the big difference between U.S. and Soviet education is a matter of emphasis. Foreign languages and geography get far more attention in the U.S.S.R., and 41% of the entire upper-grade curriculum is devoted to mathematics and science. This, says Expert DeWitt, is a "distinctive feature of Soviet...
...came to Manhattan to appear on TV. He got through the program, was chatting with friends afterwards when a fatal heart attack struck him at 58. He had been a man whose judgment was sometimes off balance, but whose rampages helped keep a generation on its toes. His proudest boast appeared in his last collection of Easy Chair articles published a few weeks ago: "No one has got me to say anything I did not want to say and no one has prevented me from saying anything I wanted...
Giant Abstraction. Julie would be the last to agree with the Barrymore boast -but the dare was exciting. Last week on Broadway she took it. She opened as Joan of Arc in Lillian Hellman's adaptation of The Lark from the French of Jean Anouilh. Her previous roles, no matter how complex, had kept within the limits of "colloquial drama." She had played people of life size in a theater of the norm, and she had only to cut herself to make her characters bleed. Joan, however, was not merely a human being, into whose feelings an actress...