Word: nest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sounds perfectly insufferable. David and Liz are newlyweds and weanling artists. In full flight from the soft clutch of uptown parental comfort, the two make their nest in an industrial loft in lower Manhattan. After a series of predictable experiences-first night, first fight, first child-they are drawn back to the kind of cozy middle-class coop they flew in the first place...
...treatment, the mother also becomes a resident of the clinic, wearing the same style blue coat that is worn by the 30 specialized .uses and therapists. The children learn to identify their mothers in the same category as the clinic staff, and the parent provides what Dr. Hauberg calls "nest warmth." She becomes an ob ject of treatment herself, sitting in on group psychotherapy sessions to talk over her guilt and anxieties with other mothers...
Love Is a Ball. This Riviera-based frappé is an object lesson in how times change though plots do not. Hope Lange is a chauffeur-chasing heiress who chases Chauffeur Glenn Ford, lures him to a booby-trapped love nest, and almost nabs him. Charles Boyer runs a school for would-be grooms, where Pupil Ricardo Montalban learns that even the aging Boyer is not yet a Casbah Milquetoast...
When Under Secretary of State W. Averell Harriman stayed at Roosevelt House, he found he had a bedmate-the Galbraiths' Siamese cat Ahmed, who stalked in casually through a gap between the door and the grillwork. Sparrows nest in the grilles, and dust accumulates rapidly in the hard-to-reach crevices. Several times a week, barefoot houseboys clamber up the grilles to clean dust and bird droppings from the apertures. Fascinated by the scalability of his walls, Galbraith and his sons themselves have taken to climbing like so many human flies...
...Agriculture Department defies tight administration. A report of the Hoover Commission on government reorganization called it "a loose confederation of independent agencies." The department's two main buildings in Washington contain a total of 4,844 rooms, eight miles of corridors. While Benson was Secretary, a counterfeiters' nest, complete with press and plates for printing bogus money, was discovered in one of the department's rooms. A sort of schizophrenia pervades the whole Agriculture Department atmosphere. Much of the department's funds and energies goes into trying to cope with overproduction-but agriculture also strives diligently...