Word: homeyness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Shaw, who was the Kennedys' faithful English nanny for seven years. She retired last spring, vowing that "my experiences are better kept to myself," but soon changed her mind. Despite "discreet" objections by Jacqueline Kennedy, her recollections began in the December Ladies' Home Journal. There are some homey anecdotes, such as the one about President Kennedy asking her when she was going to trim John-John's long hair. "What could I say?" she writes. "I couldn't say that Mrs. Kennedy wanted it long." She must have let on, though, because the President winked...
...aside from his accent and the numerous homey aphorisms scattered through his speech ("You got to get people together so they don't spit at each other on the sidewalk"), Charles Morgan Jr. doesn't sound like a Southern sheriff. First, he doesn't know the meaning of the word "drawl"--he talks non-stop, the words tumbling out of his mouth...
...four live-TV debates with Richard Nixon. What to do? If you are Jackie Kennedy, you send invitations to a handful of close friends to watch the debate with you. True, it was not exactly a handful (more than 50 people showed up), and it was not exactly a homey affair-the address she gave was actually Washington's La Salle Hotel, where Jackie had hired a large suite. One of her invitations went to the wife of her husband's running mate, Lady Bird Johnson...
...r.p.m. Dr. Deane has spent most of his nights "ashore," while another medic took over; but the four volunteers, aged 17 to 19, have had no break in their routine. Though the room is painted the restful apple green of hospital corridors, it has no windows. Despite its homey appurtenances which include pictures of girl friends, a sink, stove, refrigerator, TV and toilet, and its efficient air conditioning, it offers no privacy. In the middle of the floor stands the maypole-like axis around which the chamber rotates...
...like a documentary--in real rooms, real cars, without mood music or discursive photographic comment. But only extremely skilled artists could have projected the tense intimacy between Duff and his wife, or Duff and his father, onto the screen. Young and Roemer didn't satisfy themselves with gestures or homey evocations...