Word: drawerfuls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...immigrant's yearning for cultural respectability paid off, particularly after pictures began to talk. Street Scene, Arrowsmith, Dead End, Wuthering Heights, The Little Foxes were expensively produced, soberly realized borrowings, often from the second drawer of other arts. They formed the basis for his bankable reputation at a time when the middlebrow public tended to administer a literacy test before taking a movie seriously. By persuading audiences and critics to regard at least some films as an art form, Goldwyn did his industry an enormous service...
...been in limbo during the interregnum months. The report of the Committee on the Practice of the Arts, shelved the preceding fall by a disinterested Dean Dunlop, was released suddenly in mid-May. Although President Bok had apparently been instrumental in moving the arts proposal out of the bottom drawer of Dunlop's old desk (with some pressure from the Arts Committee), Henry Rosovsky also played an important role, one that he has continued to play this term. As one administrator said at the time, "the dean's muscle" is necessary to catalyze the Committee's controversial proposals, which include...
...would somehow cope. I would somehow enjoy hour after hour of cosmic depression, day after day, year after year... You would never catch me electing art instead of science, playing Hamlet instead of playing tennis... [or looking] at the 'Ho', drawer of the New York Public Library card catalog... Do you understand? I wasn't homosexual; I just desperately wanted to be cowboys with Chip or with Tommy." The Best Little Boy in the World...
...rooted for the American League. The first baseball team I can remember following was the New York Yankees back in their heyday of the 60s. And the first sports heros I had were named Mantle, Maris and Ford. I know if I still have them stuffed away in a drawer, but at one point I had twelve different Mickey Mantle baseball cards. You know, the kind that came with the crappy tasting gum that you gave away and the multi-colored fact card that you kept...
...complementary transactions," which occur, for instance, when a husband's Adult speaks to his wife's Adult and gets a response in kind. In that type of exchange, the husband might ask, "Where are my cuff links?" and his wife might reply, "In your top left dresser drawer"-or, perhaps, "I'm not sure, but I'll help you find them...