Word: pack
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Several weeks ago. White House legislative aides began sounding out Senators about a hush-hush plan to pack Harry F. Byrd's Senate Finance Committee. The notion was to increase the committee's membership by adding two Democratic liberals, thereby enhancing the prospects for both the Administration's tax revision and medicare plans...
Miss MacLaine will be at the Pudding Clubhouse at 12 Holyoke St. for various public ceremonies before attending a luncheon banquet. Edward A. Crane '35, mayor of Cambridge, will present an award from the City. Harvard students are expected to pack the street...
...call ourselves the Guttersnipes." says Ida in her dulcet croak, "as opposed to the Rat Pack. We don't wear Italian shoes and we don't drive foreign cars. We rarely talk about show business. I'm sure there's something much more interesting in this world...
Catch Club Leader Dave Reznick, 23, discovered the songs while studying composition in the U.C.L.A. graduate school. In Fellow Students Ted Rusoff, 23, and Larry Pack, 27, he found just the right voices to join him. They address their songs with earthy humor, belting them out with comic-opera polish and horsing around to the brink of buffoonery. Embarked upon their first big tour, they have bookings in seven cities and a Capital Records album to show for their success...
...eyebrow were they to appear in the Sweet Briar College literary magazine, burst like a sinful star shell in the stodgy gloom of Victorian England. Mothers clutched their daughters. Fathers bethought themselves of horsewhips. Staid critics, resorting to apoplectic prose, apostrophized the author as the "libidinous laureate of a pack of satyrs." But a youthful public in London lapped up copies of Poems and Ballads when it came out in 1866, and Poet Algernon Charles Swinburne became famous and infamous almost overnight...