Word: frankness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...blunderbuss; the French President had opposed state payments for contraceptives on the ground that they would be used for pleasure rather than health. Last May, in the Atlantic, Sorel unleashed "Sorel's Unfamiliar Quotations," in which bulbous characters are linked with punnish captions. Under a sullen, bleary Frank Sinatra: "Mia culpa...
...unashamedly." To find the portraits they needed, Nagel and his assistants fanned out to museums as far away as Basel's Kunstmuseum, where they discovered the only known likeness of Andrew Johnson painted while he was in office. It was the work of the itinerant Swiss artist Frank Buchser. The scouts brought it back, together with the Buchser portraits of California's Sutter and Poet William Cullen Bryant, who looks as though he was caught in the very act of writing "To a Waterfowl...
...Died. Frank Skinner, 69, Hollywood composer, who wrote orchestrations for more than 30 films, including The Great Ziegfeld (1936), The Magnificent Obsession (1954), and Away All Boats (1956), of cancer; in Hollywood...
...tradition of O'Casey and O'Neill, Playwright Frank Gilroy explored his own origins in the bleak, painfully honest drama, The Subject Was Roses. This highly successful film version shows why it was both a popular and a critical success on Broadway and why it went on to win the 1965 Pulitzer Prize. Though Gilroy's craftsmanship is maladroit, he has a musician's ear for the lilt and scrape of Irish-American dialogue, and an unblinking eye that sees his characters whole, in the light of common...
...About half of our members are former members of SFAC, PBH, the Freshman Council, or other organizations," Frank D. Raines '71, one of the Union's founders, said yesterday. "What we hope to do is thoroughly research issues, present a position on them, and then try to implement our proposals through the most effective channels...