Word: phrased
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...time, groups of homosexuals lived together in apartments they rented en masse. The apartments were called "camps," and by extension the residents thereof were also called camps-I don't know why not campers, but they weren't. "He's a camp," was not an uncommon phrase...
Sacheverell Sitwell wrote of his sister: "Her love is poetry, she lives within a phrase." Yet she could desert poetry for a decade to nurse her friend and former governess through a long and fatal illness. She admired and championed fellow poets, but seldom the women they married. In her opinion, "the wives of poets should be selected by a committee of other poets." Even worse than poets' wives were critics...
...power in serious drama, she shows here that comedy is just as much her forte. Or, in this case, fortissimo--for she bulldozes her way right through the show with an incredible display of dynamic vigor and histrionic virtuosity. She can take a run-of-the-mill phrase or line and make you double over. What a gall Alan Alda makes up the rest of this tandem tantrum...
...North Harvard community appreciates the sympathy extended by David Friedman '65 in his letter to the CRIMSON (Dec. 9). We must however disappoint his expectations about our language. An inquiry among the residents indicates that no one has ever, unthinkingly or otherwise, used the phrase "Property rights or human rights...
NIXON: You know, Barry, I find it difficult to phrase this quite the way I want to, and I know that words often fail us at times like this. I have the greatest respect for you, and for Peggy too, and I hope you'll come over soon and have dinner with Pat and me. But--and of course there are many different points of view, of which mine is only one--you really got clobbered, didn...