Word: contentively
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tolstoy once wrote, "All happy families resemble each other; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." Not so, says Joe Orton's Entertaining Mr. Sloane, a British play about a family which at curtain's fall is happy, or at least content, in its own very peculiar way. The plot, as summed up in the play's advertising, is this: "Sister wants to sleep with Mr. Sloane; Brother wants to sleep with Mr. Sloane; Mr. Sloane kicks Dada to death." Hardly the kind of situation which makes for happiness, in the natural order of things. But black comedy...
...tastes in couture and see if they couldn't recommend a few designs that she might buy on a Paris spree later this spring. "I prefer Balmain because I happened to know him before I knew Dior," Sirikit kept insisting to friends. Evidently Dior will have to content itself with fashioning glad rags for Farah Diba, who spends a mere $80,000 per year on such vanities...
...conservative, McCracken, 63, seldom made the headlines despite his pulpit support for such causes as civil rights and peace in Viet Nam, but has a widespread reputation among the clergy as a preacher's preacher. Other ministers consider him a classic orator in the Scottish tradition who blends content and form in his low-keyed sermons, emphasizing Biblical texts rather than rhetorical flourish...
...cured. The resulting line, retaining the name Chicago and North Western, would have 12,000 miles of track in eleven states. The merger would enable the two roads to discontinue several freight trains each and consolidate facilities at 28 points, including Chicago, Minneapolis-St. Paul and Des Moines. Not content with that, the North Western continues to hanker for control of both the Milwaukee Road and the Rock Island, just two of the sundry railroad-merger proposals still before...
...race is so balanced this year that every match between the big five (Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Penn, and Dartmouth) has been won by the home team. A continuation of this trend would produce a five-way tie for the crown. At this stage, Harvard would be content with a share...