Word: frail
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...feel I owe the American people an explanation of what happened," said the frail, blue-eyed woman. After a decade of obscurity in Texas, Marina Oswald Porter, 36, was in New York City to face a press conference and stir up publicity for Marina and Lee, an account of her life with Kennedy Assassin Lee Harvey Oswald, written by Priscilla Johnson McMillan. "My regret through the years has been immense," said Marina, who now lives on a 17-acre farm outside Dallas with her three children (two by Oswald) and Kenneth Porter, a sewing-machine salesman. Marina, who will share...
...Veep was needed to take over the fatiguing ceremonial functions of the presidency, like scooting out to the airport to meet visiting chiefs of state and pumping the hands of ambassadors at diplomatic receptions. Brezhnev, 70, reportedly ailing with arteriosclerosis and leukemia, was regarded as too old and frail for such chores. His selection of a Vice President might suggest his choice of a successor-when he retires or dies...
...English language into a profession. They have been an item for 47 years, spanning forays into sexual innuendo (Shakespeare's Bawdy), A Dictionary of Cliches, and Partridge's most famous work, A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English. Until an operation several years ago left him quite frail, Partridge spent his days in carrel K-1 of the British Museum Library, reading everything from pulp novels to plays (consuming "about 80% of all comedies written in English between 1530 and 1970" for his latest work). In the tradition of Samuel Johnson, Partridge works alone, disdaining group effort, computer...
...psychologist who developed a theory of "somatotypes" correlating varieties of human physique with behavior; of a heart ailment; in Cambridge, Mass. After studying with Carl Gustav Jung in Switzerland, Sheldon returned to the U.S., where he interviewed several thousand subjects for the theory he popularized. People with a frail physique and introverted behavior he called ectomorphs; those muscular in build with a predisposition for physical activity were mesomorphs; and those fleshy in shape and outgoing in personality were endomorphs. Sheldon also did research in the relation between these body types and organic disease...
Despite its title, the mistake in Failing doesn't become apparent until the end. This new play by Guy Gallo (winner of the 1977 Anderson Prize for Playwriting at Harvard) and directed by visiting director Lester W. Thompson, is about an increasingly frail scholar who, with the help of an increasingly confused young man, is trying to discover why a plot, planned many years ago, went wrong. Together, they are writing the history of a friend of the scholar who had planned to assassinate Hitler but never did. Though I won't give away the end, I will hint that...