Word: knit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Whereas I developed in a family which was tightly knit, most of the kids who are here have gone through life alone, isolated in grade school and high school. They have never belonged to a real family, only a couple of parents, a couple of siblings -- an American mobile urban society. They have no community lives in their memories to which they can compare this Harvard situation...
...Years After the Party deviates bravely from the rule about writing what you know, and the resulting incredibility--a product of both vagueness andinaccuracy--takes fully an act to overcome. Much in the '30's style, with a measure of Arthur Miller, Lerner has attempted a well-knit family drama tackling a coherent question: is exile a valid means of protesting repression? Lerner narrows in on this subject through the character of an 18-year-old anti-Nazi whose conviction derives largely from jealousy. The secondary theme is thus the effect of personal motives on the legitimacy of political sentiment...
According to Hansen about 50 people, 15 of them children between the ages of three months and ten years, are supported by Avatar. They live in a small, tightly knit community on Fort Hill in Roxbury. "We have four houses and ten apartments," said Hansen. "It's a very tight thing, like a family. It works out because everybody cares enough about everybody else...
FLESH & BLOOD (NBC, 8:30-10:30 p.m.). Arthur Penn produces and directs William Hanley's play, originally scheduled for Broadway last year but bought by NBC for a TV première. It's all about a close-knit contemporary American family whose members discover they don't really know each other. Starring Edmond O'Brien, E. G. Marshall, Kim Stanley and Suzanne Pleshette...
...strongest threads in the fabric of President Johnson's Administration winds back to the New and Fair Deal days of Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman. Those years yielded in time a national unity on matters of foreign commitments and domestic crises that knit President and populace in almost runproof harmony. Though it is frayed today by dissent over Viet Nam, Johnson would like nothing better than to reknit the cloth of American purpose. Last week he seized an opportunity to do so. To succeed Robert McNamara as Secretary of Defense, the President chose Clark McAdams Clifford, 61, a veteran...