Word: boiling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...knack for theater with a sense of truth. With its misfits and misfortunes, all too much of the play could have turned sentimental; only here and there is it a little so. Even more, it could have turned sensational, but bold black words like Illegitimacy and Homosexuality and Miscegenation boil down into what is in the world and what happens in life, and indeed the girl's touching, not unthorny relationship with the homosexual is the best thing in the play. Nor does A Taste of Honey shout its protest, which is as much social as economic, and aimed...
...fishermen in hundreds of small boats hauled in one netful after another, the fat, red-flanked fish made the shallow water boil. Working two men in a boat round the clock, the fishermen collected as much as $1,000 apiece a day. Thus did the salmon come back last week to Alaska's Bristol Bay, one of the richest salmon-fishing grounds in the world, in the biggest run in the 49th state in twelve years...
Students of this period lived luxuriously and inexpensively. Breakfast, served in Memorial Hall by white-clad waiters, featured two boil- ed eggs for eight cents or two doughnuts for three cents; a roast beef dinner sold for twelve cents, quality not specified. Each six-week course cost $20, a price fixed in the late 1880's and not changed until...
...lemur and marmoset to the sex habits of U.S. males and females. With his worshipful male research team, Chapman invades "The Briars," an upper middle-class Los Angeles suburb, to do interviews for A Sex History of the American Married Female. Expectedly, all the watched sexpots in The Briars boil over, either during the interviewing sessions or in uncontrolled experiments. Among the cases: Sarah Goldsmith, a mother of two who is cheating on a tabby-cat husband with a tomcat theater director; Naomi Shields, an alcoholic nymphomaniac who accommodates an entire jazz combo; Teresa Harnish, the arty wife...
Small Beginning. If admissions men boil at Marson's bare-knuckled attack, few may disagree that essay exams are needed. For just this reason the College Board recently announced a short one (TIME, Nov. 9). To Marson, this is only a small beginning. He calls on colleges to jolt high schools by immediately restoring "honest grading and absolute standards of academic excellence...