Word: dusters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sondheim's fascination with the theater reaches back to a day in 1939 when his father took Stephen, 9, to see a Broadway musical, Very Warm for May. He recalls, "The curtain went up and revealed a piano. A butler took a duster and brushed it up, tinkling the keys. I thought that was thrilling." That moment, a few months before his parents' divorce, was one of the few distinctly happy ones from a latchkey childhood: "I did not have an unhappy time, because it literally did not occur to me that other people had a family life...
There are many caretakers at Harvard and Radcliffe. On the front lines are proctors and advisors in the Yard and tutors in the Houses When I was a resident tutor in Duster House, innumerable students would knock on my door, usually late in the evening, and want to talk Problems of loneliness far outweighed concern about studies. When I was a section man in a Humanities course, two students individually came to me and said that they liked one another but were too shy to ask each other out I got them two tickets next to each other...
...shatter violently around her. She dreamed of joining her husband in America, but she did not try to learn his Western ways. Though he had bought her a big brass bed, she slept on rugs on the floor except when he was home. When he sent her a feather duster, she put it in a vase and displayed it in the best of her house's four rooms...
...sensual suffocation of these grand clothes was modified and ventilated for outdoor wear. The looseness of a mohair duster, the easy lines of a woman's blueserge bicycle suit, even a white wool polo coat from Brooks Brothers, all prefigure a less restrictive notion of sophistication. The summer whites of Newport are as dazzling to a contemporary eye as a violet satin costume brocaded in gold and silver, supposedly worn by Sarah Bernhardt...
...have the right to become one with characters of my own creation, to resemble them? Who is there to stop me from having their noses, their hair, their frock coats as I describe them?' he said, exchanging a biretta for a meerschaum, the meerschaum for a duster, and the duster for a crutch. 'What does it matter to anyone if I lubricate my imagination with a few bits of cloth...