Word: proms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ankara's NATO partners reaffirmed their desire for peace on the island, but failed to step in energetically on Turkey's behalf. In Moscow last week, Urguplu made a pitch for stronger Soviet backing over Cyprus, but there were limits to what Premier Aleksei Kosygin could prom ise. Russia, like Turkey, is against enosis, the union of Cyprus with Greece, but the Soviets are not likely to go so far as to back Turkey's desire for par tition of the island. The Turkish press blossomed with headlines when Kosygin promised the visiting Turks that the Kremlin...
Giddy Going. At the University of Utah, Phyllis McGinley suppressed a natural appetite for scholarship-"I knew I was bright, but I also knew that in that period and in that environment, brainy women were not appreciated. I made myself over into a giddy prom trotter. I wasn't all that pretty- my teeth stuck out-and so I had to try harder. I didn't learn very much at Ogden, but I had what I always wanted all my life: the society of people, friends, beaux...
Even so, it was on campus that the giddy prom trotter's brainy side began to show. For as far back as she could remember, the muse had been coaxing her thoughts toward verse, most of it not much better than her first quatrain, composed...
...them is quite another matter. On a basketball court, where a simple shout of "Contact!" is enough to bring everything to a halt these days, or on a crowded dance floor, where couples scrambling among the fruggers' feet have become as essential as crepe paper at any successful prom, lost lenses simply disappear. Otherwise, they get wafted down drains, into swimming pools, off ski slopes. They are lodged between the pages of books, the coils of radiators, the seats in movie houses, never again to be seen or to afford sight. Moreover, the new lenses easily get stuck...
...acquired none of the signs of soprano temperament, is instead almost girlishly exuberant about her new career. Her dressing room is crowded with "furry little toy animals," and like a teen-ager after the senior prom, she brings home all her curtain-call flowers and heaps them in the bathtub until she can arrange them around the house. To get to Covent Garden she takes a half hour ride on the tube, studying her role en route. "I memorize beautifully when there is noise around," she says. There promises to be a lot of noise about Gwyneth Jones for some...