Word: dogged
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...which he has transmuted his literary material into images can be seen in the actress's recollection of her first meeting with her lover, a veterinarian who had just treated her lap dog. Across a deserted lecture hall they exchange smoldering glances; lightly, almost accidentally, his hand brushes hers. The lighting is muted, their mood is solemn. The effect is that of domestic comedy played in the style of grand opera-a pitiless and economical way of emphasizing the gap between the actress's dreams and her everyday life...
...these books finally found her own voice as a writer, a voice in which masculine force was suffused with feminine tenderness, and boulevardiering decadence with a wonderful country freshness. In her 50s she extended her mastery. Her ideas, her images became ever more exact and effective. "The dog lay down with a great rumble and thump that sounded like a bag of potatoes being emptied"-"At the windows hung some nasty little curtains fit for wrapping abortions...
...often that District affairs achieve national prominence. Nevertheless, the fact is that Washington affairs, from the most important to the most minute, are national matters. Action by both houses of Congress is required to set District teachers' salaries and to establish dog license fees. During the Kennedy Administration, with the civil rights and tax cut bills pending, Congress had to take time off to repeal laws forbidding kite-flying and icecream cones Washington...
Walking down Athens Street in a grey topcoat, flanked by a worried tutee and an energetic black dog, William Alfred doesn't look like a playwright. The subject is Andrew Marvell. "Read 'The Garden' again," he says to the tutee who scampers off in the direction of Leverett Towers. He walks into his house, patting the dog in the process. "Bye, Sparky," he says closing the door (which, incidentally, he rescued from an old Beacon Hill mansion because it was such a "lovely door"), then winks with his gaminlike eyes and says, "Watch him start barking again." He does...
EDWARD has never given anyone cause to complain. He occasionally sups on kipper and cream of pea soup and, in meet other respects, disdains cat ways. He and his mistress, a head resident, enforce parietals in Coggeshall House. Edward and Jason, a dog in North House, are the only legal pets at Radcliffe...