Word: gathered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Christic's After the Murder contains a family of suspects, any one of whom could plausibly be the criminal; and as in most mysteries, these people are thrown together in an implausible situation. After the death of old Mr. Enderby and the murder of his sister, the surviving relatives gather at nephew Hector's hotel for a riding holiday - just the thing to perk one up after two dreary funerals...
...salary of the rare musician who can play the big bells. North America at present has 115 carillons and only six fulltime carillon-neurs. All six are members of the Guild of Carillonneurs of North America, a society of 60 or so friends and players of the carillon who gather yearly to talk about what's new in bell ringing. Last week at the Washington Cathedral's inaugural recital on its new $250,000, 53-bell carillon, it was obvious that the church fathers knew just whom to hire to handle their heroic instru ment...
This week, as 2,200 bishops gather in St. Peter's to begin the debates of the Vatican Council's second session, they will be working under drastically revised ground rules recently decreed by the Pope. The 73 schemata, or agenda items, presented to them last fall have been boiled down into 16 broader proposals. Decisions on whether to continue discussion of a schema will be made by simple majority vote rather than by two-thirds, and substitute schemata may be brought to the floor of the council by petition of 50 or more bishops. Four cardinals have...
...writing about pretty girls during the week after Pearl Harbor; Goldberg, who normally loves such assignments, churlishly refused on the ground that, considering the times, there were more important subjects to write about. On PM, the long-defunct intellectual tabloid, he was asked so many times to gather man-on-the-street reaction to stirring events that he once rebelled and interviewed 35 New Yorkers all named Hyman Goldberg. To his surprise, his story was a resounding success...
...queue reached down the shaded walk and across the grass, streaming out like a scarf in the wind. Children and adults, they had come from Harlem, Park Avenue and Greenwich Village to gather at Central Park's Delacorte Theater for the final scheduled performance in a ten-night summer dance festival. When the box office opened to pass out the 2,263 free tickets that filled every seat, the end of the long line was awash with customary disappointment. As had happened on every other night of the festival, there was one who was turned away for every...