Word: papering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...edited National Catholic Reporter of turning itself into "a platform for the airing of heretical views" (TIME, Oct. 18). In an editorial for the current issue written by Founding Editor Robert Hoyt, the N.C.R. refuses to backtrack. Hoyt agreed that the bishop had the right to criticize the paper, but the editor charged that the condemnation statement "attempts to make the paper an outlaw publication, but without anything faintly resembling due process of law. It is a prime example of the attitude toward the use of authority in the church which the paper opposes...
...polls closed at 9 p.m. but people were there from 7:30 on. The room was filled with television sets, red, white and blue crepe paper, and balloons. The first results, in at 10:05 p.m., were discouraging: Hampton was ahead by 679 votes. Everybody was nervous, and the only people willing to discuss the outcome were members of the press. Kids watched the televisions, many of them cheering for Humphrey. Horace Kramer, Lowenstein's campaign manager, recalled that although he was losing, he wasn't trailing by as much as Herbert R. Tenzer, the retiring Congressman, had been...
...Yorker cartoon, a horrified patient looks up from the operating table and asks the masked doctor, "How do I know you're not George Plimpton?" How, indeed? The author of Paper Lion and Out of My League has played as a bumbling quarterback for the Detroit Lions and performed as an inexpert pitcher in Yankee Stadium...
...right. Boys not only had strength you could never match, they had all the paraphernalia of strength: sweat socks, Erector sets, laundry bags full of shoulder pads, aircraft carrier models, framed photos of The Varsity, dirty books, baseball cards and pup tents, while you got the leftovers: paper dolls, hair curlers, bedmaking, frilly underwear, dishwashing, piano lessons, pajama parties. As you grew older, things got more confusing: boys went on fishing trips with their fathers, you were taken shopping by your mother; boys covered themselves with grease, you learned to pick out the right color hair ribbon; boys stayed...
...Paper Lion--An ambitious attempt to depict George Plimpton in all his complexity. Sports columnists seem to like it better than movie reviewers do. At the GARY, Stuart near Tremont...