Word: cat
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...nation's professionals were employed by federal, state and local government; but 60% of black professionals held such posts. Government programs that proliferated in the 1960s took many blacks up the job escalator into the middle class in half the usual time. "A new breed of cat was produced, the black technocrat," says Robert Coard, director of an antipoverty agency in Boston. William Fuller, who earned $8,100 a year as a grade-school teacher in Portland, Ore., illustrates how fast a black technocrat can ascend. Between 1967 and 1969 he advanced from a planner for a Model Cities...
...serious enough to warrant the Holy See's cranking up its rusty court machinery. Last week one such proceeding was under way: four onetime repairmen for the Vatican's telephone exchange were on trial for stealing or receiving $10,000 worth of objets d'art in cat burglaries of several apartments in the Holy See, including the Pope's own chambers...
...revolve. "Foma" are "harmless untruths, intended to comfort simple souls,"-such as "prosperity is just around the corner." A "granfalloon" is a "proud and meaningless association of human beings." As members of the Vonnegut granfalloon know, the words first appeared in one of Uncle Kurt's early novels, Cat's Cradle. · John Skow
...later years, the Duke lived a life that for a jazz musician at least, was almost monastic. If wrestling with a new work, he would write all night in his apartment on Manhattan's West Side. Parties? "I just don't have time to be a social cat." Since the death of Strayhorn in 1967, Ellington's closest intimates were his son Mercer, who played trumpet in the band and served as road manager, and his sister Ruth, president of Ellington's publishing firm Tempo Music. Ellington's marriage to Mercer's mother...
Tennessee Williams's Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is still at the Loeb, they tell me, and I believe them. But since I know even less about the play than usual, I hesitate to recommend...