Word: codding
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Toward the end of the week the President, like many another American, flew off for a long Fourth of July holiday. It was a time for rest. At the family compound of summer homes on Cape Cod, only a small handful of White House aides mixed in with the gathering of Kennedys, in-laws and close friends. Yet with the Berlin crisis looming large, national policy would surely be discussed-and formed -around that ever-influential forum, the dinner table of old Joseph Kennedy...
When Painter Charles W. Hawthorne first came upon Provincetown, Mass., in 1898, it was a fishing town inhabited mostly by Portuguese who had scarcely ever seen a tourist, let alone an artist. Today the quaint town at the top of Cape Cod is a bustling art colony overrun by tourists, and no one doubts that Hawthorne-one of the great art teachers of his time-was above all the man responsible...
...there? First off, if you are fortunate enough to have a car, be wise enough to leave it in the garage. Save it for your week-end trip to Tanglewood or Cape Cod. Boston is no place to drive in. Scooters are fine, and walking is even better; but for most, the public transit system will do best. It's called the MTA, and 20 cents will get you almost anywhere. Park Street Station in downtown Boston is the hub of this underground network. But, remember: the subways and buses stop...
...only one leaping is the speaker, Charlie Carmody, playing host at what he perversely insists is his 82nd birthday party-though he is really 81. Father Hugh Kennedy is hanging back for fear the rest of the party will regard him with the dead-cold eye of the Boston cod. Father Kennedy has been an alcoholic, and though it is five years since he last drank, everyone holds his breath until the errant priest refuses a proffered sherry. Between them, Charlie Carmody and Father Kennedy divide The Edge of Sadness, but do not dominate it. In his first book since...
...cubists. The affair was "rather a platonic one," says he, for he was already preoccupied with ideas of his own. Over the next 45 years, teaching many thousands of students in Germany, at the University of California in Berkeley, in Manhattan's Greenwich Village and in Cape Cod's Provincetown, he worked them...