Word: gathered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...story, by Colette, has a Hans Christian Andersen simplicity: a naughty child, in a harlequin rage, rips up the furniture, twists the cat's tail, yanks the clock's pendulum and exults: "I'm free-naughty and free." In the second scene, the animals gather to threaten the child, forgive him only after he has come to the aid of an injured squirrel...
...teaches American history at Princeton during the year, is giving a lecture course on the Civil War and Reconstruction periods, and a seminar on nationalism and sectionalism between 1820 and 1860, in the Summer School. In the afternoon, he travels to the Massachusetts Historical Society in Boston to gather material for the second volume of his Summer biography, which will include an account of the Senator's activity during the war and after it, to his death...
...bank needed a way to coordinate executive operations and communications as if the offices were not really separated. The money committee, for instance, meets every morning. The bankers at the midtown offices at Park Avenue and 53rd Street assemble in their conference room while their colleagues on Wall Street gather in theirs. With cameras trained on each group, and with two TV screens picturing each scene, the members conduct their business as if they were together in one room. Staging plays no part in the meetings; the bankers do not even bother to wear the nonreflecting blue shirts that...
...fashionable Saint-Tropez, where BB and other international types gather to bask at one another, the quais and cafés are aflash with the new rage-in slacks of solid greens, reds and pinks, paired with multicolored boleros. While the BB look holds considerable dangers for anyone above a size 10, most of the girls have done Madame Vachon credit-proving once again that it matters not how much shows but quelque chose...
Mobilizing to meet the threat, the Ford Foundation donated $190,000 to the National Education Association to set up a national clearinghouse that will advise local schools and community agencies on specific ways to catch dropouts before they trip (work-study programs, improved counseling, intensive reading courses), gather exact statistics on the drop-out rate (now reportedly 40% nationally and 60-80% in blighted urban areas), and help unemployed kids find jobs...