Word: compacter
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Part one of the inner circle's secrets is Chief Boston, or Clarence as he was known at birth. Chief claims no compact with the fates, no Demosthenesian tongue between the halves or elsewhere--but the inspiration is there nonetheless, and it starts with the coach. Boston is a player's coach, a believer in teaching by doing, and a teacher who knows...
Built by Beer. Few cities, in Mexico or out, have grown up so compact and self-centered as Monterrey. That is due in part to the cool, clear spring water that caused Don Diego de Montemayor and twelve followers to pitch camp in the hot mountain valley on Sept...
...from Ziegfeld glorification on Broadway to toothpowder riches (Dr. Lyon's, inherited from her late second husband Paul Owen Richmond), lost her purse in a Hollywood nightclub. The purse's contents: a diamond-studded gold cigaret lighter, a diamond-studded gold cigaret holder, a diamond-studded gold compact, a diamond-studded gold lipstick-&-perfume set, a diamond-studded pillbox, a solid gold scratch pad and pencil, a diamond-&-gold coin purse, a diamond-studded gold money clip, $500 in cash, and 40 solid gold keys. But no tooth powder...
Oxford Was Right. Amiable Winkie Barr was parting amicably from 250-year-old St. John's. An ex-Rhodes Scholar, he thinks Oxford University has the right idea in insisting on small colleges. Says he: "Learning is a kind of contagion. The group must be compact enough for the contagion to occur. I don't want this one [St. John's] to get any bigger. We've always assumed we would start another college when it got too big." St. John's, which graduated only seven students during one wartime year, expects to enroll...
They had chosen one of the very few things in the world that are both great and perfect. As playwriting, Oedipus is as compact as dynamite. As drama, it tramples down its own large horrors, mounting to a world of austere terror beyond them. All the blind helplessness of man's fate is in it, and all the tragic suffering of his meeting...