Word: fingers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...elongated, and so full of flexion folds as to be a palmist's nirvana. Tricassus Mantuanus, Melampus of Alexandria, John de Indagine - those late-medieval heavies of palmistry would have gone bananas over Satch Sanders' hands....The vertical line from the wrist to the base of the middle finger is the line of fortune, and to an expert chiromancer like Tricassus, that line would probably say it all....Harlem to Harvard...
...inner earth. To my ears came a faint, loathsome piping, like the whining, thin mockery of a single feeble flute that was to start an unwholesome elfin celebration. Just before I awoke, feverish and gasping, I noticed a cowled figure Who beckoned slowly to me, and with a gaunt finger pointed into Lovecraft's open sepulcher...
...misdirected finger that points to Massachusetts Hall or the administration as the culprits if affirmative action fails at Harvard. Walter J. Leonard Special Assistant to the President
...Mitchell's duties as Attorney General. He served in that post from early 1969 until March 1972, when he moved over to head the Nixon re-election committee. In both jobs Mitchell was one of the few people in Washington who, with a flick of his phone-dialing finger, could hurdle the White House "Berlin Wall" erected by Ehrlichman and Haldeman...
THOSE PEOPLE who worried at the time that Carpenter Center was to become an "adult nursery school" with lots of courses in "finger-painting" were appeased. Emotional release would not be tolerated. And realism was effectively nixed due to the influence of the Bauhaus. "Everything was to be scientific, nothing emotional," recalls James S. Ackerman, professor of Fine Arts and a member of the CPVA. Harvard would teach a language of vision, nothing more. According to Sekler, "In 1960 it seemed the most valid way of going about...