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Word: pipefuls (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hogan's Goat (just out) and on another a copy of Life with its Alfred feature. "Did you see what they did to me?" he asks, chuckling at the magazine. "How about that come-hither look by the church door?" And then William Alfred sits down, lights a meerschaum pipe, and begins to talk...

Author: By Joseph A. Kanon, | Title: Grendel, Fedora, and a Big Fat Hit: William Alfred is Still 'Just Folks' | 5/19/1966 | See Source »

...sake of the university and make it for the student himself." He says he uses anecdotes to point out the human effect but confesses that sometimes, "I tell them just because I like them." It was at this point in the discussion that he put away his pipe. "One of my students got me to try this pipe -- said it smoked like an angel. Brother, was he lying...

Author: By Joseph A. Kanon, | Title: Grendel, Fedora, and a Big Fat Hit: William Alfred is Still 'Just Folks' | 5/19/1966 | See Source »

...clay to get a clearer conception of spatial relationships, work with big Masonite squares and circles to get a grip on geometric symbols. They stand on one foot and hold out their arms to comprehend the ideas of leftness and rightness. They manipulate letters that have been fashioned from pipe cleaners, feel the shapes with their eyes closed as the teacher pronounces the letter's sound. The aim, says Mrs. McGlannan, is to blend sight, sound and touch in order to straighten out jumbled perceptions by "involving all the sensory pathways...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reading: Some Johnnies Just Can't | 5/13/1966 | See Source »

...about midnight, those of the opening-night travelers with sufficient stamina dashed up Fifth Avenue to the Jewish Museum to catch the tail end of yet another opening. There, 42 young U.S. and British sculptors launched what may be a new art movement. The new trend is all bare pipe and unadorned steel, and it trumpets "less is more" as its philosophical basis. Its name: Minimal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Exhibitions: Progressive Seebang | 5/6/1966 | See Source »

Died. Patrick Vincent McNamara, 71, Michigan's Democratic U.S. Senator since 1955, a genial Irishman who became president of a Detroit pipe fitters' local in 1933, then fell into big-time politics, eventually winning a Senate seat, where he concentrated on care for the aged, labor-management relations, highway development and from 1963 the chairmanship of the Public Works Committee; after a stroke; in Bethesda Naval Hospital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: May 6, 1966 | 5/6/1966 | See Source »

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