Word: compassable
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...gaggle of East German commissars and Soviet officers to the Bran denburg Gate. Atop the gate, once the principal gateway between East and West Berlin and now the capstone of Ulbricht's wall, a new flagpole had been hastily erected. As the East German hammer and compass flag was run up to celebrate his macabre triumph, Ulbricht watched happily...
...Water. Heloise had come to the Advertiser on a friend's dare, but she had a specific project in mind: "Something wide open where women and men could talk about anything they had on their minds." Her compass was so broad that her new column in the Advertiser's women's section was given the all-purpose title of "Readers' Exchange." As it developed, Hawaiians had plenty on their minds. A 22-year-old Chinese woman wrote that she had been a "walking zombie" since the death of her mother; her published letter produced a flood...
...recalls Broadway's A Thurber Carnival, but it has a wry. gentle note all its own. It is also part of a growing Chicago school of humor (although Feiffer himself is a refugee from Greenwich Village). The focus of infection formerly was a group of improvisers called the Compass Players, celebrated for bringing forth Mike Nichols. Elaine May and Shelley Berman; currently it is a cabaret and theater called Second City (TIME, March 21, 1960). Dozens of satirical revues now inhabit the cellars of Chicago's Near North Side, but the Feiffer view...
...What dreary names for the women's Houses. At Harvard-Radcliffe, which in all things encourages free play in developing local fancy, such a step toward worldly facelessness can only be deplored. What is wanting is a lyrical quality, or the deserved pomp. If the Houses must box the compass, they might at least be Meridian, Antipodes, Capricorn and Cancer...
...result the play contains all the requisite moral compass points but, in an artistic sense, no needle pointing north; provides a large and picturesque altarpiece but without a dominating central panel...