Word: frame
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Mary Sirhan, who has worked in a church nursery for the past nine years, lives with her sons in an old white frame house. The neighbors in the ethnically mixed, lower-middle-class Pasadena neighborhood describe Sol as "nice, thoughtful, helpful." He liked to talk about books and tend the garden; he played Chinese checkers with a couple of elderly neighbors, one of them a Jewish lady. Sol was no swinger, was rarely seen with girls. His brothers told police that Sol liked to hoard his money?perhaps explaining the $409 he had on him despite his being unemployed recently...
...BOYS IN THE BAND. Mart Crowley s comedy makes no apologia for the homosexual society, but uses it as a frame within which to hang the skeins of diverse lives, while unraveling some of the knots in which human beings tie themselves. Leonard Frey, Kenneth Nelson and Cliff Gorman lead an exemplary ensemble through assaults of sharp-edged humor and barrages of put-down gags...
Like the steel racket, "the Smasher," as Spalding calls it, is open-throated to cut wind resistance, increase the speed and power of a player's swing. Unlike the T2000, which has its strings attached to a crown inside the frame, the aluminum racket is strung conventionally, through nylon-lined holes in the racket's head. This increases the size of the "sweet spot," the area of the racket face on which the ball can be hit with good effect, and makes the racket less likely to spin or twist on shots hit near...
...than conclusive, but convincing just the same. In contrast, Jacob Egan '68 does a longer, deeper, more confined analysis in a Dickens study, "Reification and the Rhetoric of Nature in Bleak House"--the longest piece in Bogus. The texture is as academic as the title, and requires thesis-grading frame of mind...
...they are left with a feeling of confusion and a lack of direction. Many came to Washington to escape poverty at home. "I came here because things are better," a woman from Lebanon, Miss., told me. Many expect to stay permanently. But so far, life in the plywood A-frame shelters has hardly been uplifting--materially or spiritually. It is uncomfortable and boring. People are going home. The Washington Star said that 50 had left by the fourth...