Word: frame
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Thais are too sophisticated for such crude devices. Their fighting kites, which cost up to $18, are made of rice paper delicately stretched on a fragile bamboo frame, and come in two sexes: the star-shaped chula, or male kite, and the diamond-shaped pakpao, or female. Each has its special weapon. The chula sports five bamboo talons called champas (literally: fruit pickers), and the pakpao carries a long noose called a nhiang. The male kite tries to capture the female's control string in its talons and drag it to earth; the female tries to encircle the male...
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov was born 94 years ago in a comfortable frame house in the small, sleepy city of Simbirsk, deep in the Russian heartland. His mother, a Lutheran, was a Volga German; his father Ilya, of Russian-Mongolian ancestry, was a teacher who rose to the post of director of elementary schools for his province and received a minor patent of nobility from the Czar. The Ulyanovs were seemingly untouched by the vast, ancient and epically inefficient tyranny that ruled Russia, or by the equally inefficient stirring against it. Vladimir and his older brother Alexander had an idyllic childhood...
...Stanford's infant (1948) quarterly is high on punchy prose, has broken new ground ever since Volume I probed the legalities of rainmaking in a piece titled "Who Owns the Clouds?" Later it debunked Alger Hiss's contention that a "second" typewriter was used to frame him. In 1963 it examined the high-priced funeral industry well before Author Jessica Mitford's bestseller on the subject. Too new to have many famed alumni-Idaho's Senator Frank Church is one-the Stanford review this year boasts a girl president, Brooksley Born, 22, whose law-school grade...
...three intervening novels (widely praised but not very widely read), The Spire is clearly intended as a crowning work. Like Golding's other books, it is less a novel than a kind of fable in which a thin skin of realism is stretched to meet a rigid allegorical frame. Sometimes brilliant, sometimes tedious, it does not fully confirm the remarkably high reputation Golding now enjoys. But it proves that he has made himself the relentless modern master of two ancient and provocative themes-the loss of paradise and the sinfulness of man. At a time when fictional pessimism often...
After number three, it should be all Harvard; Sophomore Clive Kileff is almost certainly the best number four man in the Eastern League. Basketball captain Bob Inman, who uses his 6'4" frame to hit the hardest serve of the team, and captain Sandy Walker hold the last singles spots...