Word: reade
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seasonings, she could turn out French, German and Italian dishes, and once in a while Chinese. Best of all, she got John Jr. and Caroline to devour their spinach by decorating it with little egg-white faces. Last Christmas, Mrs. Kennedy's Christmas card to her read: "You make such a happy house when you let the children help you cook...
...classic cliche, she is her husband's severest critic. "I can't think of one of my novels she's really liked," says Updike. "When she read The Poorhouse Fair, she said, 'Why do you want to write about all those old people? After The Centaur, she said, 'You can't understand all the mythology.' After Of the Farm, she said, 'Nothing happens.' And with Couples, she said she felt that she was being smothered in pubic hair. Actually I did take some...
...Kasmin gallery that won raves even from critics who did not know quite what to call them. "It seems impossible to describe them without vulgarizing them," said the Manchester Guardian. "They could be puddings, breasts, biological specimens-but they could also be offerings to some ultrasophisticated deity." Trying to read the riddle of his abstract, Shmoo-shaped objects is really a waste of time and effort, Price says. Their true secret, he feels, lies in their iridescent dragonfly-wing colors. These are achieved by spraying on 20 thin coats of high quality lacquer, which, he proudly points...
...stripped-down flat, a cell of Maoist incendiaries gather to plan the decline and fall of practically everybody. The short-wave radio blares a ceaseless stream of news from Radio Peking; quotes from the Chairman are read with the stentorian zeal of the newly converted; lectures propound dialectical doublethink ("A revolutionary party carries out a policy whenever it takes an action. If it's not a correct policy, it's a wrong...
...seems extraordinarily optimistic to contend that students can do all the reading for three or four courses (on any level of superficiality) within three weeks. Most of us just don't read that quickly. Imam, himself, argues that keeping up with reading during the term takes so much of a student's time that he has none left for extracurricular life. Probably neither of these major contentions can be true; statistically they cannot both...