Word: muriel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Trustees are concerned with the overall operation and continuity of the Center." said Jones. "They will handle the financial and legal matters." Tom Atkins, Boston city councillor. Attorney Henry F. Owens, candidate for the Boston City Council, and Mrs. Muriel Snowden, head of Freedom House in Roxbury, are members of this group...
...Greene's view, conditions do not improve as man grows up. As the most famous of the trio of British literary converts (the others: Evelyn Waugh and Muriel Spark), Greene is a Catholic of Augustinian severity, more conscious of evil than of grace. "Human nature," he asserts, here as in his novels, "is not black and white but black and grey...
...Muriel Spark's novella was first published in America in The New Yorker. Mrs. Jay Allen's adaptation (of her own stage version) betrays its source at every turn. Its details are unfailingly accurate. The school is a chalk dust bowl; the staff is a frightened gaggle arranged in perfect pecking order; the girls throw themselves into adolescence as if they were breaking the sound barrier. But, as in much New Yorker fiction, while the parts promise a vision, the whole does not even provide a view...
Many Democrats have already written off Humphrey as a possible contender on two counts: both as a loser and be cause of age-he will be 61 in 1972. But Hubert, tanned, jovial and buoyant as ever, seems almost eager to face another presidential test. Last week his wife Muriel told an anecdote that does much to explain the insatiable fascination the presidency holds for men who have once made the race. At a recent White House reception for the Prime Minister of Iran, says Muriel, "Hubert held my hand as we came down the great stairs from the President...
...PUBLIC IMAGE, by Muriel Spark. A wickedly witty novel about a movie star who rises and falls on her public image...