Word: lank
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pert, lank-haired Linda LeClair, 20, from Hudson, N.H., enrolled as a freshman at Manhattan's Barnard College in 1965. Soon afterward, she met Peter Behr, a Columbia University freshman from New York City, at a dormitory dinner. Romance blossomed, and when Linda became ill and had to drop out of school a few months later, the couple moved into a West Side apartment together. Last year, still living off-campus with Peter, Linda resumed her studies...
Rose, it becomes obvious, is really a comedian masquerading with a banjo, and his singing is a spoof on the whole lank-locked, guitar-strumming generation. Folk singers who are convinced that poverty equals purity, he points out, are called "ethnic artists," and "ethnic," he explains, "means you make less than $10,000 a year." Rose is 27, and has all the equipment needed to make a great deal more. He usually works at Greenwich Village's Gaslight Cafe, but this week he will open at the Blue Dog in Baltimore...
...youth: First Violinist Evgeny Smirnov is 26, while Cellist Yuly Turovsky, the youngest member, has not yet turned 25. Indeed, to look at them, Barshai's wonders could pass for young American jazzniks-especially Bassist Feodor Plyat, 26, who wears horn-rims, and Oboist Evgeny Nepalo, 27, whose lank 6 ft. 4 in. is topped by a brown crewcut. Though it prefers Bach, the group does, in fact, dig jazz. Its preference: the clean-lined cool of Erroll Garner and Dave Brubeck...
...vaguely hermaphroditic, pudgy and white; Eva, her cross falling just where her pancake makeup gave way to the slightly pimpled pallor of her skin; Achsa, tallow-yellow and without breasts; Beatie, marked with the red griddle of her corseting and verging on shapelessness; Marvin, sallow and unmuscled beneath the lank black hair that covered even his upper arms." Sallow Marvin is Fiedler at his best; his other defects include a withered leg and a weak heart. Eventually both ailing parts give way, and Marvin pitches on his face amid the croquet balls as everyone laughs and laughs. The reader...
Currently the Faculty of Arts and Sciences offers courses in "Latin American Politics and Government" by lank, "Inter-American Relations" by May, "Intellectual History of Latin America, 1810 to the Present" by Juan Marichel, associate professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, a graduate seminar in Latin American intellectual history by Marichal, "Contemporary Poetry of Latin America" by Robert G. Glickman, lecturer on Spanish, and next year "Peoples and Cultures of South America" by Gordon R. Willey, Bowditch Professor of Central American and Mexican Archaeology, and Evon Z. Vegt, professor of Social Anthropology...