Word: naming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York City Ballet company, Oklahoma-born daughter of an Osage Indian, onetime wife (No. 4) of Choreographer George Balanchine, and Chicago Construction Executive Henry ("Buzz") Paschen Jr., 32, her third husband: a daughter, their first child (he has another daughter by an earlier marriage); in Chicago. Name: Elise...
...trouble at New Jersey's Diamond County Home for the Aged begins on the day of the annual August fair. The oldsters awake to find little tin name plates tacked to their wicker porch chairs. Gregg, a 70-year-old rebel without a cause, splenetically pries his tag loose. The philosophic Hook, an old man's old man of 94, observes mildly of Gregg's feat that workmanship is not what it once was. The armchair rebellion merely saddens Conner, the poorhouse prefect. A self-punishing do-gooder, Conner needs the inmates' gratitude to mirror...
...tell the life story of gentle Mrs. Bridge ("Her first name was India-she was never able to get used to it"), he uses a mannered but often effective device of 117 very short chapters, each concerned with a single episode, often a single glancing thought or aspiration. The reader, in effect, leafs through a verbal photograph album, ranging from an eleven-line snapshot of Mrs. Bridge finding her small son staring meditatively at the dressmaker's dummy of her figure (thereafter, she hides it in the attic) to a seven-page description of a country-club dinner that...
University Hall reaction was delayed, but one top official, who asked that his name be disclosed, commented, "We knew all about this ploy months ago, but didn't want to say anything. Boys will be boys, you know...
...doctored stories themselves had little effect. Councilmogul Al Vellucci, however, did sell his yacht upon reading about the Charles River parking lot. Balthazar Ali Khan called in to report his name was spelled Belshazzar. "Mene, mene, tekel upharsin," he warned...