Word: fitness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...drew sketches and wrote about herself and her friends. On Modigliani: "All he did was growl; he used to make me shiver from head to foot." On Jean Cocteau: "He gave me a necklace fit for a queen." On Utrillo: "Once, after I had been posing for him, I went around to take a look and was knocked off my pins to discover that he had been drawing a little country house...
...found throwing an apiarian party, serving her guests dishes of honey just the way the Romans did. She has helped organize Latin Weeks in 30 different states, still keeps up a lively correspondence with teachers all over her own state. Last week, in a typical fit of enthusiasm, she told her forum audience: "I feel as if Latin, like the Phoenix, is arising from the ashes." In South Carolina, thanks to Dr. Martin, it apparently...
...Lawn Tennis Association repealed its eight-week-a-year limitation on acceptance of invitation tournament expenses by the U.S.'s star players. Even before, however, gadabouts like Seixas & Co. were not much restricted in their gadding. The U.S.L.T.A.'s "emancipation proclamation" merely changed the text to fit long-existing facts. Whenever the eight weeks' rule was not honored in the breach, it was usually bypassed with exceptions. The tennis tourist's new year-round freedom to live off the fat of many lands will, nonetheless, add many new stops to old itineraries. Davis Cup Team Captain...
...Soglow's president will fit A. Lawrence Lowell's classic definition for a leader of Harvard; this new chief executive will have "the vision to see things" and the force to watch them through...
...surprise of the film is the excellence of Burt Lancaster's performance as Lola's husband. Despite greyed temples and bushy eyebrows, he looks too young and fit for the role, but dramatically, he is completely convincing. As the reformed alcoholic trying to reconcile himself to his life with Lola, he has just the right tone of quiet and guarded desperation. And when the guard collapses and his bitterness and frustration explode in a tremendous jag, his performance has a terrifying intensity. To the smaller role of the young boarder who innocently shatters the deceptive calm of the Delaney home...