Word: rare
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...doors to the Houghton remain closed in order to maintain constant temperature and humidity for the collections. Most students have never been inside--and it's too bad because the Houghton Library is a magical, enchanted place, the home of the University's rare books and manuscripts...
Bucking Best. As recently as 1960 the party in Pennsylvania was healthy and seemingly growing stronger. David Lawrence, one of those rare bosses capable of combining a strong party organization scandal-free with a administration, progressive, sat in relatively the Governor's mansion. Richardson Dilworth presided in Philadelphia's city hall continuing the reforms started by Joseph Clark. before he moved on to the Senate. William Green the Elder ran the party in Philadelphia, and on Election Day his well-financed cadres produced the plurality that John F. Kennedy needed to carry the state...
...thought unique, a moment rare...
...like lofty physicians in "treating" croupy exhaust systems. Now the scoffing has given way to awed silence. Last year Sherman's nationwide chain of 460 Midas muffler (and other parts) shops grossed $42 million. This triumph has freed Sherman to pursue myriad private interests-Talmudic scholarship, oboe playing, rare-bird raising, the culture of orchids-and to cure social ailments as well as autos. He is, for instance, the endower of a new school for militant community organizers, founded by Saul Alinsky. "The time for picketing city hall is over," Sherman says. "We need constructive entities to exert pressure...
...ending is too pat. But Miss Kellogg displays an easy, lightly satirical command of the hospital-medical milieu, as befits a professional therapist (one of her patients was the late Carson McCullers). And, perhaps most promising of all, she writes with a crispness and economy that is all too rare in any novel-first, last or in between...