Word: haystack
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...white love affairs. These goings-on take place at or near an Ivy Leaguish college named Arden that physically resembles Cornell, but the true locale is hipsterland, and the hero's quest for identity is as manic as if he were looking for a hypodermic needle in a haystack. Stylistically, Author Gutwillig tries to evoke Scott Fitzgerald but merely invokes him. His novel's value is as a minority report of a post-Korean war generation that is less interested in revolting against society than seceding from...
...whipping boy, hardly bigger than the Great Seal used by the pauper to crack nuts in the palace. But the play's most memorable image was its gentlest: a lovely little girl (Patty Duke, 8) finding the tattered prince-by then the king-asleep in a haystack. The prince identified himself as "the king" and, while a tiny kitten pawed at her long tresses, she asked with disarming, grave eyes: "Oh, what king...
...Avengers. Serafino's first jobs as a Mafia apprentice were relatively easy ones. He burned a farmer's haystack to avenge an insult, stole a few chickens and an old pistol, memorized passwords and studied the elaborate cabalistic rituals. He went off to war, and when he returned in 1944 he was promoted from apprentice to "cabalist of the blood." His cousin became chief of the secret society and began plotting crimes by the score. The gang pulled off about 30 jobs, though the biggest haul was a puny $65 hijacked from a touring motorist...
...caught her arm and dragged her back. The other women tried to free her, but could not. While three of the attackers stood with leveled guns, two of the bullies dragged the schoolteacher into the wood. Six days later, the carabinieri found her-ensconced in a haystack with Mayor Nucera. "He has promised to marry me," Francesca told her rescuers. "I agreed to be carried off." "Women!" snorted the leader of the rescue party...
...form the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, which started the last century's mass movement of U.S. Protestant missionaries to the world. Last week 17 Protestant ministers from the lands reached by American missionaries met at Williams College to mark the 150th anniversary of the haystack meeting. Their topic: "America's new role in the world church." That role has sharply changed from the condescension toward the "heathen" of the five Williams students. In a joint message, the bishops of the Protestant Episcopal Church have put it thus: "Plainly, a deep-going reorientation in the method...