Word: jacketing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Spence, professor of Chinese history at Yale, has pruned and selected this record. In the tradition of Marguerite Yourcenar's Memoirs of Hadrian, he has created what he calls an "autobiographical biography." But it is more than that. From the Emperor's resplendent portrait on the dust jacket to the small ink drawings scattered throughout, the book is both an object of careful craft and a most imaginative example of low-profile scholarship in which Spence's obviously immense efforts scarcely show...
...ever mixed with a San Francisco psychedelic-style concert crowd is likely to forget the experience. Going to see the Boz Scaggs, Grace Slick or Hot Tuna? Better take ear muffs and a flak jacket. Psychedelic rock crowds can be hostile collections of spacy Viet-vets still suffering from post-Viet Nam syndrome, pimply feminists in granny glasses and young high school dropouts. Bottles and firecrackers spin through the air. At a Grateful Dead concert, usually a four-or five-hour affair, the typical freak is a blend of drug hunger, male lonerism and musical knowledgeability. He will attend somnolently...
...Jacket: to label someone
...Corbett is billed on the dust jacket as "the well-known British psychic." His colleague Stearn Robinson is somewhat more ambiguously qualified as an interpreter of omens: she was a New York advertising woman and radio scriptwriter, listed on the book jacket as the inventor of the "integrated commercial." Their advice is to ignore dreams with a digestive origin and recurrent dreams too: these are certain to have a physiological or psychological basis and are thus without interest as portents...
...fact be understating the problem for women, because a nonworking woman, who does not have to punch a time clock or stand scrutiny in the office, finds it easier than her husband might to hide her habit. One alcoholic housewife in Miami admitted stashing Clorets in every jacket pocket and downstairs drawer to disguise her liquor breath from unexpected callers. Others try to hide their alcoholic breath by sipping Listerine, Scope or vanilla extract...