Word: crochet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Brady Stevens, $500,000, Major Hall, who did crochet work about the house...
Apart from Major Hall's crochet hooks. the image that lingers longest with the reader is that of poor Ella Haggin on a coconut isle with the ominous thrum of bongo drums in her ear, while the natives chomp raw fish for an appetizer. Author Eliot confides that eventually Ella got a divorce, but otherwise she leaves this and many another story in just the tantalizingly scrappy shape she found it in family memoirs or the gossip sheets of the gilded age. Either because of fellow feeling (she is herself the child of an Anglo-American match and bears...
...second concert of the Cambridge Civic Symphony Orchestra was highly imaginative, but the Orchestra's response to his direction was often disappointing, for one reason or another. In the Mozart Piano concerto (K 271, in E flat) the very excellence of the soloist, a young Frenchwoman named Eveylne Crochet, made the Orchestra's contribution seem rather weak. Mile. Crochet's reading, a compendium of elegant phrasing, effortless roulades, and delicious, unforced tone (for which the piano is probably due some credit) was the performance of a knowing, sensitive professional. But the Orchestra is only a good civic ensemble, and hazy...
Doorstep, at the Tufts Arena through this Saturday, concerns itself, if not the audience, with the problems the Crochet family in Louisiana encounter in trying to raise money for a new home. In order even to make the show bearable an extremely high level of acting is called for, especially in the parts of Mr. and Mrs. Crochet and their daughter Erie. This level the Tufts group does not provide. They fail, both in their line readings and in their movements, to convey any real feeling. Marilyn Rawlins as Mrs. Crochet fails less than the others. But the largest share...
...these magazines ruin moral standards and they must be murdered at the newsstands, then let's kill all the magazines covering crime. No more detective yarns, no killing, no war. What's left? Crochet, anyone...