Word: doorly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Baby Sitter. In Kansas City, Mo., Harry Rosenthal pulled into a parking lot in his tiny foreign car (a B.M.W. Isetta with its only door across the front), turned the car over to an attendant, came back several hours later to find the man-who had no idea how to put it in reverse-still sitting in the car, its front end snug against the parking-lot wall...
...returning from her evening out, the 'Cliffie may pause for a moment on the dormitory steps before unlocking the door and disappearing within to complete the "registration" process. There is no one around to make sure that she records her signin time honestly. This unique feature of the honor system presents the 'Cliffie with a certain amount of temptation, for if she returns even five minutes later than planned, she receives a mild penalty. For being 15 minutes late, she gets "the works!"--a social probation which requires her to spend one Saturday night within the next two weeks upstairs...
...King in 1955 because he likes being Premier better) has welcomed aid missions to Cambodia from the U.S., France, Russia and Communist China alike. After tours of Red China and the U.S., he proclaimed himself impressed by both. But Neutralist Sihanouk is sadly out of tune with his next-door neighbors on the Gulf of Siam...
...years in Maori schools and an amateur painter and musician, has fashioned a strikingly individual style: her sentences come tumbling forth like precision acrobats, alive with imagery, sensuous perception, heroic echoes. The full-lunged children are so noisily present that, for many, reading Spinster will seem like living next door to an all-day playground. The adults are drawn as well, with acute observation of the irritable crankiness that so often accompanies dedication, and with a tragicomic sense that it is often the most trivial despair that most startlingly changes an existence...
...through which she sees old scenes in a new way. One of her courtroom vignettes: "Some of the seats have emptied. People have crept out into the hall, to send off the latest or just to smoke, for air . . . Looking back through the glass panels of the shut door, one can see into the court-wigged heads, writing hands, the judge enthroned, red-robed, heraldic like a king of cards; the back of the doctor's head and neck solid above the parapet; counsel in shadow-play shooting out an arm; lips moving soundless, all silent, sharp, like fish...