Word: hatting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pedaled madly in pursuit until it was out of sight. On his devious journey to guerrilla headquarters, Okamura was escorted at a killing pace through the jungle by a 73-year-old woman guide, then was taken in hand by a Viet Cong commissar who wore a cowboy hat, an orange shirt, and had a police whistle strung round his neck...
...hope," the priest said, "there's lighting control in all the rooms." "No," Babcock answered, "just in the halls." "And no window," a lady in a flowered hat said, shaking her head. "How do you like this view," Babcock asked, after descending a few floors. "As you can see," he said, gesturing at the Radcliffe Quadrangle below, "this is only the start of the School." I wouldn't be surprised if the School had the whole quadrangle some day--although that's just a guess." A few members of Radcliffe's 50th Reunion class flinched...
Consciousness-expanding drugs though they by now are old-hat and clearly must be consigned to the basic foundation of College scandals, in 1963 were only beginning to intrude upon the consciousness of college officials. But intrude they did, and in May President Pusey fired Timothy Leary and his colleague Richard Alpert for giving drugs to an undergraduate after the two experimenters had explicitly guaranteed the University they would not use College students in their experiments...
...delight, appalls him. Said he: "The distance between one side of the nose and the other is like the Sahara." And so his stick figures present the long and the short of man rather than his breadth. As existentialist sculpture, Giacometti's work would be old hat. But, as Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art opens a retrospective of 140 works this week and London's Tate Gallery prepares another exhibition for July, Giacometti seems less tormented than an observer of a disjointed, brisk and familiar world. It is a world that, for all its grotesque attenuation...
...measured tones, they debate how much money to borrow in the domestic mar ket, whether to buy or sell sterling in foreign markets and - most important -whether to change the bank's interest rate. After each meeting the chief liai son man, Peter Daniell, dons his top hat, starts on a 21-minute walk across Bartholomew Lane in London's City. Precisely at 11:47 a.m., he marches into the stock exchange and, while bro kers crowd around him, announces the bank rate - the price of money...