Word: knitted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...untrue rumor that Cooper had heart trouble has persisted. He smokes a rare cigarette, drinks an occasional bourbon highball, and dresses soberly. He has a horror of loud ties, and when he is tempted to substitute one with a touch of color for his favorite dark blue knit, he sometimes appeals to Macomber to tell him whether the new tie is too loud. Assured that it is not, Cooper is still likely to whip the blue tie out of his pocket and change...
...Liberace phenomenon resembles earlier crazes over Frank Sinatra and Johnnie Ray. But Liberace fans are more likely to belong to the two-way stretch than to the bobby-sox crowd. Women mob him wherever he goes. They bake cakes for him. They knit for him (one fan contributed a pair of socks embroidered with small pianos). Last year they sent him 27,000 valentines. One grandmother and her daughter have been following him for months from town to town. Says his brother George, who conducts the background music on his show: "He's got musical hypnosis." Says his manager...
...close-knit, intimate college of a thousand students, whose social life is dominated by a fraternity system, certain standards of conduct have inevitably arisen. Yet despite the weekends, at Amherst the emphasis is not solely on a social existence. It is rather a compromise on the "balanced life." The standard is pushed by the administration and adhered to by the student body. The feeling is that one should be adaptable. One should drink, but not too much, take girls out, hold a minimum of moral scruples, go out for athletics, try out for a position on one of the literary...
Even the faculty seems to be organizing Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology, is chairman of a national organization formed last year, The Faculty Christian Fellowship. This is a loosely knit organization of professors throughout the country who have a concern for understanding the relation of religious commitment to objective teaching. It aims to discover the "implications of Christianity for the work of the teacher...
This is at once both an advantage and a handicap. Dunster won the Straus Trophy last year, and may repeat this year. As a result, the athletic group forms a tightly-knit unit which plays, eats, and talks together...