Word: fuming
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...Those are the worst hours," she says. "To pity him: wrong. To try to calm him: wrong. If he fumes, he wants you to fume with him. There is nothing you can do, really. Certain subjects are taboo at these times?anything upsetting, anything about his pieces for that day. Even remarking that he's never made a mistake in one of them. If you say that, he will...
...bang of a blown-out spark plug or the crunch of a bent fender makes the U.S. motorist fume, but it is music to Gulf & Western Industries, Inc. As a leader in the U.S.'s $7 billion-a-year market for auto parts, G. & W. lives on breakdowns and damage. It lives well: since 1958, it has multiplied its annual sales 22-fold to $175 million, acquired 57 companies that make products as diverse as guitars, jet-engine parts and survival equipment for spacemen. Last week, in its most ambitious diversification, G. & W. made a deal to merge with...
...This article has just appeared in the first issue of the Bay State Banner, Boston's new Negro newspaper, and is reprinted here with its permission. Jonathan Kozal '58 was graduated summa cum laude, held a Rhodes Scholarship, and is author of the novel Fume of Poppies. He was the object of nation-wide attention last spring when he was fired from his post as a fourth-grade teacher in the predominantly-Negro Gibson School in Roxbury. The reason given him was that, along with poems by Frost, Longfellow and Yeats, he had read to his pupils Langston Hughes' "Ballad...
...Adrian Darby, 26, Home is surely where the heart is-even if Meriel Douglas-Home, 24, does pronounce her name Hume, as in fume. It started to get that way eight months ago, at a performance of Aïda, when he first met the British Prime Minister's second daughter, and now the young Oxford economics don plans to make his name hers. The wedding date is March 30 at her family's Scottish estate, The Hirsel, in a ceremony to be attended only by relatives...
Roger D. Brown is managing editor. Jonathan Kozol '58, author of Fume of Poppies, and Richard Tilinghast are the senior editors in Cambridge. Herbert Kohl '59, and Mark Mirsky '61 are the New York senior editors...