Word: purrs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Good Way. Trading on a second-growth tonsil that gives his voice a pleasantly fuzzy purr, Tormé tried hard to be a balladeer. But his syrupy approach to hits like Blue Moon won him the unfortunate nickname "The Velvet Fog," typecast him as a limp crooner, and tempted tricksters to heckle him by slipping the irresistible r into "Fog." "Life was nothing but traveling," he says. "I was very unhappy with my recording career. Everywhere people would give me the 'so-you're-the-cocky-little-kid' bit." Mel's obstinacy never withered...
After the folksinging, freshmen and their dates can go to the Union where Gordie Main and the Mainiacs will blast twist music while George Graham and his band purr "mood" music nearby...
...college Mollie embraces boys, Shakespeare ("fabulous"), an avant-garde poetry instructor, folk singing, atomic protest ("Free Bertrand Russell!"). She comes home on vacation a cool sophisti-cat, all burnished claws and no filial purr, and asks what kind of gin Daddy uses in his martinis. As Dad turns the color of vermouth, Mom remarks sagely that Mollie will "never again be as old as she is right...
From the tunnel, smaller passageways slide off to the missile silos, each 165 ft. deep and 40 ft. in diameter. Other tunnels lead to the antenna silo, and to a circular power house 70 ft. below ground where four generators purr out power enough for a city of 5,000 people...
Friendly Non-Persuasion. Born in Yugoslavia, Kirchanski grew up in West Virginia, where his father was a coal miner and his mother worked in a factory. At eleven he was forced to go to work because his father died. Still he managed to purr through Detroit's Wayne State University in 2½ years, then shot for a doctorate in political science at Berkeley. When he ran out of money, Kirchanski turned to schoolteaching, was disappointed at slow progress in "airy, friendly" classrooms. By contrast, when he taught convicts, Kirchanski made rapid progress. Public schools, he decided, were...