Word: limps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Selective Service System's Qualification Test, which many high school seniors could pass. The Chicago sit-in leaders held that the university, by not refusing cooperation with draft boards, is implicitly backing the war in Viet Nam. Beadle's nonbelligerent response showed the argument to be embarrassingly limp...
...MORNING by Victoria Holt. 256 pages. Doubleday. $4.50. Britain's Holt is one of the best-known and most successful Gothic storytellers (Mistress of Mellyn, The Legend of the Seventh Virgin). This book is about Harriet Delvaney, a poor little rich girl who is afflicted with a limp and is despised by her father because her mother died at her birth. She marries Bevil Menfrey, the handsome, tawny-haired scion of a high-spirited but impoverished family, and goes to live at Menfreya, a fortresslike mansion on the Cornish coast. Once installed, Harriet is deliriously happy-but hark: what...
...hesitates to consign A Man's A Man to the second category, but it is a relentlessly episodic history of immutably two-dimensional characters. Its message--that the army hampers self-expression--is obvious and overly familiar. Structurally limp, the play begins arbitrarily, and ends at least three times...
...other ways, art has gone beyond all limits. Americans have quickly run through abstract expressionism, action painting, pop, op, kinetic and minimal art. With gravely innocent eye, the public contemplates art consisting of a real chair or a coiled rope, of limp sculpted toilets, of nudes that go through movements of coition. Like the young, artists are traditionally supposed to break with tradition, but there is hardly any tradition to break with. Irish, Southern and Jewish writers have been among the most productive in the U.S.-probably because they still have a tradition to work in, or to flout...
...read a novel now, though slowly. She walks well, except for a slight limp. So well, in fact, that Actress Patricia Neal, 40, recovering remarkably from three massive strokes during pregnancy last year, left her healthy seven-month-old baby at home in Buckingham and rode down to London's Grosvenor House to attend the British Film Academy's annual awards ceremony. Smiling as Actor James Mason ticked off some of the winners in the lesser categories, she suddenly heard him intone: "Best Foreign Actress . . . Patricia Neal"-for her role as Admiral John Wayne's girl friend...