Word: pertness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...raised in an atmosphere of religion: the Evangelical Covenant Church of America, an offshoot of Lutheranism. Two years of service as a seaman in the U.S. Navy (1946-48) provided him with the G.I. bill and eventually his medical degree. At North Park College in Chicago he dated blonde, pert Lois Lindblom, whom he married in 1950. Then came Stanford and a degree in anthropology, followed by George Washington University med school. Lois worked as a nurse during Carlson's medical studies, looked forward to a cozy, housewifely career in California. But then Paul went to the Congo...
Through Waltzing Dan's room troop: his termagant sister (Pert Kelton), a scold who would rather be righteous than right; a mournful Jewish crony, much dismayed that a recently deceased and cremated friend might be occupying the ashtray at his elbow; a refreshingly downbeat priest to whom God is all Greek and man is vile, and a medical fraud who takes Polaroid pictures of his patients at each visit to trace their rate of decay. These flavorful characters are impaled on a toothpick plot like canapes. The story that should make the play go makes it stop -whether Waltzing...
...Barbara Castle, 53, Minister of Overseas Development. A pert redhead with a flair for fashion, she came from a Yorkshire Laborite family, was an ardent member of the old, deep-pink Popular Front Socialist League. Her idea of a Sunday in the park is addressing a crowd from a Trafalgar Square plinth. She has made all the Aldermaston ban-the-bomb marches, has long had a passion for emergent Africa, the purview...
...champagne corks been swept up from the royal wedding of King Constantine and Princess Anne-Marie than the Greeks were back at their favorite political sport of monarchy baiting. The main target was not the popular newlyweds, still off on their island honeymoon, but the bridegroom's pert mother, German-born Queen Frederika, 47, whose good looks and outspoken views have embroiled her in controversy ever since she came to Greece 26 years ago as the bride of the late King Paul...
Taylor seems so bent on entertainment that he often slips into anachronism, and some of the pert dialogue between Angelina and the Shelby boys sounds more like 1964 TV comedy than 1840 backwoods. However, except for such lapses, Two Roads clips along at a lively pace, and despite the well-staged battles and general bloodletting, readers get the reassuring impression that...