Word: frequent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Father Humphrey was the local druggist and a person of consequence; he and the Methodist minister (who had been to Harvard) were the town's acknowledged intellectuals. The Humphrey drugstore was a frequent forum for political debate, and the local thinkers always gathered in the Humphrey parlor on Sunday nights, after the Epworth League meeting, for homemade cinnamon rolls and coffee and discussion of the topics of the day. Young Hubert was always a fascinated listener and frequently a precocious participant. "I can never remember going to bed before midnight since I was twelve years old, except when...
...horn in the school band, played piano. He was a Life Scout, captain of the debating team (his coaching methods were successful enough to propel his kid sister into the state declamation championship), and, inevitably, he was class valedictorian. A talent for leadership, too, was early manifest : at the frequent reunions of his mother's multitudinous Norwegian family*-there were eleven aunts and uncles, almost 60 first cousins-it was invariably young Hubert who organized the younger element into social activity...
...home in Greensboro (where he spends Wednesday, Thursday and Friday). Commuting among them, Love travels some 2,300 miles a week by plane and train, dictating memos and reading reports all the way. He usually works seven days a week and well into the night, breaking off for a frequent tennis match or bridge game. Spencer Love figures that work is fun, and the brightest textile era looms ahead. One sign: the "casual living" trend-which means brief shorts, old blue jeans and no stockings-is giving way to the consumers' desire to "trade up" to more fashionable dress...
...parody of a bad historical novel. (A line like, "By gad, sir, she's as pretty a wench as ever I bedded!" seems right out of Forever Under.) Moreover, in his attempt to expand the scope of the eighteenth-century style to accommodate his expanded purpose, he resorts to frequent bursts of the stiffest, most intolerably pretentious sort of "fine writing...
...more highly educated, i.e., frequent, moviegoers see some social stigma attached to their pastime. They would be tempted to lie rather than admit how often they go to the movies...