Word: phoned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lesson of Ole Miss, where Classicist William Willis reports that segregationist "screaming" no longer scares anyone. "The faculty speaks much more freely now than it did last September," says Willis. "Oh, students still report professors to the local Citizens Council. But all we get are a few harassing phone calls." The point is clear: "A substantial portion of the faculty found that by exercising academic freedom, they have...
...named Nathaniel Welch of Auburn, Ala., to the Southern Interstate Nuclear Board, appointed four members to the Battle of Lake Erie Sesquicentennial Celebration Commission, notified Philadelphia that the Navy would name a Polaris submarine after Benjamin Franklin, made a phone call that commenced a year-long mechanical countdown toward the 1964 opening of the New York World's Fair...
...onto it, but his esthetics often turn out to be a bag of raucous gimmicks that merely assault the nerves. He pictures one of his nudes with a real TV set, and he once put a telephone into a collage in order to "make it come alive when the phone rings...
...Phil Burton, now director of the Musical and Dramatic Theater Academy of America (in Manhattan), trained Richard with some novel devices. He made him talk on five telephones at once, doing a scene from a play about a busy bank manager who could hold five separate conversations, darting from phone to phone. The exercise was repeated a thousand times to teach the boy coordination and mathematical precision in speaking. Today, Richard understandably hates telephones; but he speaks with fantastic precision. Also, Phil Burton would take Richard to the summit of Mynydd Margam, the last high mountain between Pontrhydyfen...
...types have an easily understood reason for avoiding telephonic pestering, or pretending to. One Brooklyn movie theater manager is unlisted to avoid the calls he used to get from irate parents whose children he had to eject for rowdiness. Night workers who sleep during the day often have their phones unlisted, and so do some old ladies who are painfully conscious of their vulnerability to a hard-luck story. Doctors and top executives sometimes keep one phone unlisted for outgoing calls only, and the parents of teen-agers often find it expedient to turn the listed phone over...