Word: frame
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Crimson was furious at itself for even being in the consolation game, and Colby wasn't in a very pleasant frame of mind either. Referees called five minor penalties, four major five-minute infractions, two 10-minute misconducts, and and two match penalties during the fracas, and both teams finished the contest with three skaters and a goalie...
...former head of the Atomic Energy Commission and now Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, to suggest the right man for the tough job of building Task Force 8. McCone's answer was brief: "Get Starbird." Within days, Major General Alfred Dodd Starbird, 49, was squeezing his lanky frame (6 ft. 5 in.) behind a desk in Barton Hall, a building saved from the wrecker's hammer by the sudden need for a temporary headquarters for the task force. A handsome, scholarly and reserved West Pointer, Starbird finished a respectable seventh in the pentathlon at the 1936 Olympics...
...second year, soap." The prospective site of his retreat: "Some place halfway between Nogales and Tucson -a place where I can hit the bars in both towns with equal ease. It will be a place where I'll pat little Mexican children on the head . . . a little white frame house with a rickety front porch where I can laze away in the shade in a straight-backed wooden rocking chair...
Whether the day begins in his cluttered fifth-floor apartment in a Manhattan upper East Side brownstone or in his white frame cottage in Key West, Williams brews up a pot of Stygian coffee and plants himself in front of a Smith-Corona electric. He has no set output and contends that "out of a year's writing days, there are only five good ones." He may work on any one of three or four manuscripts. Last week, in Key West, he was working on his next play, The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Any More, about...
...Schuller, a onetime first-chair hornist for the Metropolitan Opera, explores the potential of brasses in a fragmented Quintet that is by turns haunted, anguished or raucously jeering. The fine Fantasy Quartet, with its dynamic rhythms and attenuated lines, finds the composer in a less ruffled but consistently moving frame of mind...