Word: girling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...through an equal work load, but this does not keep them from outside interests. In high school Charlie managed three sports (both Hal and Charlie are avid sports enthusiasts; Hall has been at almost every Harvard football game this year, accompanied by a transistor radio and a pretty girl). Hal played the violin in his high school orchestra, and was president of Scarsdale High's General Organization. He ran for that position partially because he faced so much opposition from the faculty and the PTA: they were afraid he would not be able to handle it. "I won," he reports...
...finds it difficult to meet people. Hal uses his readers as contacts, but seldom dates a reader. "You don't get much reading done," he explains, "and, if you break up, you lose a reader." One problem he ran into in his undergraduate days was the type of girl who was willing to go out with a blind boy: "There are two reasons why a girl would go out with me," he said. "Either they were doing their bit for humanity, or they were trying to tick off their parents." Also, girls tend to be looking for the norm, especially...
NEITHER Charlie nor Hal is at all interested in trying to meet a blind girl. And for a blind person in the sighted world, it is not only hard to find dates, it is even harder to find someone to get serious about. As Charlie said, "I can't see that beautiful girl across the room and run over and ask her out." And any girl who marries a blind man must be prepared to fight. "It's harder to find someone when you're blind," Hal said, "but when you do find her she's exceptional-more understanding...
...Surburbs would have been the better title for what Albee has given us. Composed of equal parts naivete' and cliche', the play is all about Money and the Tyranny with which it Rules our damnable Lives. Albee's irony is that society condemns moon-lighting as a call girl, but rewards the more pervasive practitioners of the art like the research chemist who perfects germ warfare or the publisher who exploits trash. And so we enter the Age of the Whore...
...last night calling for the City Manager to enforce the Health and Housing codes which have been "flagrently violated." In introducing the order Councilor Barbara Ackermann said 'with all the problems that Harvard brings to this community, it is the least they can do to be lawabiding landlords. A girl is dead, and I do not say she would be alive today if there had been a lock on her door, but there is strong reason to believe that...